I will admit I got rather emotional watching the ceremonies commemorating the 80th anniversary of D-Day. The Greatest Generation fought, and many of them died, for something many people today are willing to throw away: freedom and democracy.
The cavalier attitude of today's Canadian and American "political generation" is disheartening. While I support environmental concerns which seem to be at the top of the 'agenda', I believe we have to realize that if we don't deal with the greater external and internal threat to our security, environment won't matter. Now is the time to build back our security infrastructures to meet the external challenges of Putin, Modi and Xi and potentially the internal security threats in America. This may mean temporarily moving resources from other government priorities to the defense of our democratic institutions.
For example the Canadian Government has recently revealed that some politicians who won office in the last election were knowingly and with forethought working on behalf of off shore "clients". For this they were rewarded. And yet they continue to participate in the democratic process that they would see dismantled or at a minimum disrupted. Stunningly insane!!
The cavalier attitude of today's Canadian and American "political generation" is disheartening. While I support environmental concerns which seem to be at the top of the 'agenda', I believe we have to realize that if we don't deal with the greater external and internal threat to our security, environment won't matter. Now is the time to build back our security infrastructures to meet the external challenges of Putin, Modi and Xi and potentially the internal security threats in America. This may mean temporarily moving resources from other government priorities to the defense of our democratic institutions.
For example the Canadian Government has recently revealed that some politicians who won office in the last election were knowingly and with forethought working on behalf of off shore "clients". For this they were rewarded. And yet they continue to participate in the democratic process that they would see dismantled or at a minimum disrupted. Stunningly insane!!