With this news I can’t help but thinks of this song….
Clowns to the left of me
Jokers to the right
Here I am, stuck in the middle with you
With lots of reopened US bases in Greenland we’ve become ‘bookended’
Why?
Even Harper has come out, strongly, that it was in our best interest to walk away.
Mulroney and Harper have been the two most pro-US PM’s we ever had and the only one left living has said walking away was the best decision.
So the joining of the JEF in essence would live on if the US pulled out of NATO and we would be part of an 11 nation coalition HQ'd in the UK built around a 10k rapid deployment force, who's primary focus would the Arctic, North Sea, Scandinavia and the Baltic security. Does that summarize it?
Not me, I've never been against foreign investment (exception being some Chinese in certain industries). We've lacked the chutzpah to do it ourselves for the last 3ish decades. Our banks are case in point, very risk adverse for CDN projects, too worried about NIMBYism and upsetting this group or...
The reality is 2 things - 1) We don't know at this time re the EU and; 2) If Trump hadn't gone after us, leaving us and the Mexicans alone, PP would have won the election and the whole EU question wouldn't even be on the agenda.
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