Expert report on national security lacks urgency, offers conflicting yet vague advice

A new report by the University of Ottawa's Task Force on National Security says Canada's 'traditional approach' to national security is 'no longer sustainable,' but falls short in its analysis.

A new report stresses the need to 'enhance governance' of national security by establishing a cabinet-level body chaired by Prime Minister Justin Trudeau to give this body the seriousness it deserves, writes Gar Pardy.The Hill Times photograph by Andrew Meade

Opinion

BY GAR PARDY

June 2, 2022

There is no shortage of threats and problems preoccupying our daily lives: the first major war in Europe since 1945, a virus that refuses to leave our personal and political bodies along with a new one promising a monkey on our backs, and daily decisions about whether we need a bank loan to keep our...

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