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Canada at risk of direct attack: Canadian General

Memo to Liberals:

Oh why bother.  Generals and experts and academics and citizens and those in the field have been saying this for years.  It goes in one ear and out the other.  So this is just for conservatives and most Canadians generally, as a reminder of how inept our liberal-left government is. 

Bigger threat than during Cold War
Need planes to lift troops, equipment

OTTAWA—Canada’s military planners have to consider the country a potential location for armed conflict, the chief of the defence staff said yesterday.

“What we have to do in order to be responsive is start treating Canada as an operational theatre,” Gen. R.J. Hillier told the Conference of Defence Associations Institute seminar yesterday. “In some respects, Canada and Canadians, despite their not being fully au fait with it, are at more risk now of direct attack than they have ever been during the Cold War itself.”

He said since Sept. 11, 2001, it has been clear that the Canadian Forces have to treat Canada as an operational theatre if they are to be able to respond to a direct attack.

[…] Other speakers at the conference were not so diplomatic.

John Noble, a former diplomat who is now director of research for the Centre for Trade Policy and Law, called Prime Minister Paul Martin’s decision “a public relations disaster on all fronts.”

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