How Canada can move away from its ‘whack-a-mole’ national security strategy

Richard B. Fadden/The Globe and Mail: A middle power should utilize all the tools at its disposal and maximize their effect by ensuring their co-ordination. Thus, foreign, defence, security, development and international economic policies need to be developed in the full awareness that their effectiveness will be significantly enhanced if they are mutually reinforcing. The same applies, depending on circumstances, to emergency planning, international criminal activity, control of our borders, and aspects of national economic activity that promote our capacity to make our own rules…