Before Trump kicks Canada out, let’s quit NATO

If he can question the necessity of Americans having to bolster NATO, Canada can question why we still need to belong to the alliance at all.

A soldier with a crest of the ISAF NATO mission in Afghanistan attends a Remembrance Day ceremony in 2013.Kenneth G. Takada photograph courtesy of DND

Opinion

BY SCOTT TAYLOR

November 16, 2016

OTTAWA—Last Wednesday, the world awoke to the reality of Donald Trump becoming America’s 45th elected president. As it was well past midnight when Democratic candidate Hillary Clinton formally conceded the election, Trump’s victory occurred on Nov. 9 or 11/9. Tellingly, internat...

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