Canada is on the verge of emerging from a long nightmare of strategic decline as the present Trudeau Government faces imminent destruction. But how quickly can this country, once with the world’s third-largest navy and a mighty aerospace industry, restore its credibility?
And what does that mean for the next era of strategic alliances? A new NATO? A new period of diminished cooperation between the US and Mexico, the US and European NATO, and so on?
Perhaps the “experiment” in universal, forced literacy, has been a failure, an historical blip. Literacy is in retreat because of technology and because inquiring minds challenge leadership patterns. Yet intellectual capacity— signified by literacy— determines strategic success. What is to be done?
