Dr. Janice Stein

It's not Russia.

It's not China.

And frankly, it's not the British, given how little investment they've made over the last decade in the kind of assets they would need to really provide a meaningful security guarantee.

And look, Keir Starmer said, you know, he's convened a conference

on how the Strait would be reopened.

But he's very clear, once the war stops, that's not, that's cold comfort to the members of the Gulf.

And I take one more minute on that one.

He was what we would call today the Deputy Minister in External Affairs, as it was then called.

But, you know, this is one of the most interesting stories that I think Canadians don't really understand now.

And why am I really saying this, Peter?

You're absolutely right.

He invented peacekeeping.

He said we need some kind of force to put in because that's the only way that Britain would withdraw.

And it became the foundation of peacekeeping in the United Nations.

But that's not why he did it.

And that's the story where Canadians have to dig a little deeper here.

He had no commitment to the idea of peacekeeping more broadly.

Lester Pearson looked at this and said, oh, my God, our two closest allies, the United States and Britain, are in the middle of a terrible fight.

That is not a good thing, and it certainly doesn't serve our interests.

He was focused on managing a conflict between Canada's two most important allies.