Canada’s return to NATO’s front line has air of familiarity to it

This is turning into Trudeau's season for making progress on files normally seen as Liberal weak spots.

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau laughs with Croatian President Kolinda Grabar Kitarovic at the NATO heads of state and government meeting in Warsaw last week.Photo courtesy of NATO

Opinion

BY PAUL WELLS

July 13, 2016

And so Canadian soldiers are heading back to Europe. Times change and the world, despite a steady drumbeat of appalling headlines, is safer for us than for our parents. So the deployment of 450 Canadian Armed Forces troops to Latvia won't be nearly as formidable as the deployment to West Germany—...

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