Liberals repeat mistakes of the past

Today’s Liberals appear destined to repeat the same mistakes as the Liberals of old, reducing the size and capability of our military and shifting Canada’s defence and foreign policy away from principled to political appeasement.

Canadians are concerned that the prime minister is putting Canadian troops in harm’s way to satisfy his own political desire to obtain a seat on the UN Security Council, writes Conservative MP James Bezan. The Hill Times photograph by Jake Wright

Opinion

BY CONSERVATIVE MP JAMES BEZAN

September 26, 2016

Those who do not learn from history are bound to repeat it. A more definitive statement does not exist that truly encompasses the current Liberal government’s defence policy review. When Jean Chrétien’s Liberal government of the 1990s came into power they immediately implemented a policy revi...

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