It’s like ‘the Monroe Doctrine on steroids’: Canadian politicos react to Trump’s new ‘very chilling’ national security strategy

The Canadian government has been relatively silent about the strategy, with ministers only weighing in when asked by reporters.
The office of Foreign Affairs Minister Anita Anand, left, had no comment last week on the new U.S. national security strategy, but former federal Conservative minister Peter MacKay, former Canadian ambassador to the U.S. Frank McKenna, and former federal Liberal minister Lloyd Axworthy all criticize the document.

A new national security strategy by United States President Donald Trump’s Republican administration threatens to make Canada “a vassal state” and “needs to be put on the reading list" of every MP, says Lloyd Axworthy, who served as foreign affairs minister in then-p...

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