Rob Russo

So I think that that what happened in Alberta, what happened in terms of the undersecretary of wars, as he's called now, Eldridge Colby, saying that the United States is putting a pause on a board.

that Canada and the US jointly chaired.

I think that we can draw a straight line between those kinds of things and the interventions, perhaps, of Mr. Hoekstra.

Mr. Hoekstra was meeting with Mr. Colby a few days before he made the announcement on the Joint Defense Board.

But again, I actually think it's helpful to know when a train is coming down the track

and not to wander into the tunnel blindly.

So in that way, Mr. Hookster serves a useful purpose.

Is it genteel diplomacy?

No.

We are in for some very tough times.

And what the signal is on the Joint Defense Board is,

Yeah, we're doing great in terms of spending money on NATO, but we can, cannot, and it will be a long time before we can assert sovereignty over 40% of our own territory.

And in order to assert that sovereignty, we depend on the United States.

And they want us to do something about that.

I think it's...

It's kind of I sometimes wonder if they get Canadian media because we are doing something about that.

It's plain.

We're spending a lot of our money in the Arctic.

I think vast sums of the 81 or 82 billion we're going to spend over the next five years is in northern Canada.

What this really is, is a squeeze on the F-35s.