Thanks to Canada for standing with Britain in response to Russian attack

The attack against Sergei and Yulia Skripal took place in a peaceful provincial city in Britain; next time it could be on Canadian soil. The almost unanimous international response to Salisbury in support of Britain underlines Russia’s isolation.

British Prime Minister Theresa May, pictured speaking in the House foyer during a visit to Ottawa last September, has kicked out 23 Russian diplomats in response to the Salisbury attack. The Hill Times photograph by Sam Garcia

Opinion

BY SUSAN LE JEUNE D’ALLEGEERSHECQUE

March 23, 2018

On a quiet Sunday in one of Britain’s most beautiful cathedral cities, a father and daughter were struck down by the first offensive use of a nerve agent in Europe since the Second World War. Sergei and Yulia Skripal are still gravely ill in hospital. A police officer who went to their aid fell i...

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