The strategy of following the path of least resistance is natural. But when crisis comes, as it will, Canada has to be ready and resolute
When Justin Trudeau was first elected, he would get sucked into long, rambling interviews with reporters and invariably have to apologize for “saying the right thing, the wrong way,” as one adviser put it.At his morning press briefing, he was asked to comment on the tear-gassing of peaceful protestors in Washington, so that President Donald Trump could pose outside St. John’s Episcopal Church, holding a Bible.It felt pre-meditated, which it was no doubt.
But the president is merely “a morbid symptom of chaos, rather than its cause,” according to a long essay on the British news site UnHerd by Aris Roussinos. That overstates the evils of the free movement of goods, services, capital and people – a positive development that has improved the lives of billions around the world.America is now a house divided, unable to agree on anything. Its soldiers are on the streets of its cities, while tan-coloured Humvees last used in desert wars prowl its neighbourhoods.
“It is difficult to reasonably conclude possesses the societal solidarity to wage a decades-long global struggle against a near competitor,” said Roussinos.
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