OP-ED: Schoolyard Rules and Sovereign Fleets — Why Canada Must Chart Its Own Course

“We do not have to be helpless pawns in the rules of some other’s game. Canada must develop its own potential—seeking military and economic alliances with like-minded, free, democratic middle powers.”

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Author: Dr. Arney Lange

“It is better to fetch a compass … and go around … than once to see those misshapen monsters.”

Virgil, The Aeneid, Book 3.

The primal rules of an unsupervised schoolyard do not disappear in adulthood. It can be a world of asymmetric power, shifting alliances and the constant threat of coercion. What is learned on the…