Defence official fired after warning Ottawa’s anti-American rhetoric was handing gift to Canada’s real adversaries, China and Russia

June 19, 2026

The Bureau: An explosive wrongful-dismissal lawsuit that claims a senior defence official was fired after warning that Ottawa’s anti-American rhetoric was handing a gift to Canada’s real adversaries, China and Russia, casts an article by a veteran Ottawa newspaper reporter as a turning point in the government’s posture toward her — a characterization the reporter firmly rejects…