As alarm grows across Europe about growing Russian aggression towards NATO countries, Canada’s ambassador-designate to the European Union says Canada is right to be concerned because of its stake in the continent’s defence and security.
“Canada is an ally through NATO and increasingly working with the European Union, and obviously we have a strong stake in this as well,” Jonathan Wilkinson said in an interview with CTV Question Period airing Sunday. “We have soldiers in Latvia and a commitment under NATO to be part of the response if in fact there was a challenge.”
“So, I mean, we’re all concerned, and it’s important for us to act together to deter the Russians,” Wilkinson also told host Vassy Kapelos.
NATO’s Article 5 outlines the principle of collective defence and asserts that an attack on one member is considered an attack on all members.
Worry about Russia’s actions have been growing amongst Canada’s allies in Europe.
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“I think we should all be concerned,” Wilkinson said, when asked by Kapelos about his level of worry at the prospect of potentially imminent Russian action. “I mean, some of the recent activities in Leipzig and elsewhere have shown the Russians are willing to actually do things that previously we would not have thought they would have done.”
“Europeans take this very, very seriously, and they should,” Wilkinson added. “It’s on their doorstep.”
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Associate member news then hybrid news and massive amount of opinions pieces about what is hybrid and now this. Are things escalating? I’m from the US with loved ones and colleagues in Canada so I follow what happening there as of recent, how credible is CTV?
Sometimes I wonder if anyone is paying attention to global politics. Is everyone seriously under the impression that things are going fine and the shit has a long way to go before the fan?
I don’t want to sound like an alarmist, but yes. I think things are bad. Pete Hegseth (former Fox News Anchor) is now Secretary of Defence. Oh, wait, now it’s Secretary of War. A Fox News Anchor! I think the leader of the USA is a lunatic. Why the Republican party has let this debacle continue is beyond my comprehension. Maybe someone smarter than me can explain why the USA is sinking, and politicians are doing nothing to stop it…
Easy. The rich people groom politicians to play the game. The game is to give the rich what they want. These days it seems the rich want to suck up all the money, build bunkers, and generally fund fascism that works in their favor. These rich people have no borders. They don’t care about countries or people. The largest offenders live in China, Russia, and the USA. Each one of them, and all blood relatives, should be cremated and launched into space.
Not to doxx myself too much…. My bubble is US, Canada and France…. I tend to read and find things in those areas so I do look at global news/politics there. Then off and on everywhere else because with here in New York with this massive demographic, it’s sometimes hard not too get into global politics.
And how do you think the next 10 years will go?
There’s a time frame from 2025 till now where there were so many office/political terms ending around the same time and handful of countries going backwards like the US…… I think people are going to see a lot of confusion and regret like Brexit. But, I see a hard evolution milestone humans are going to learn and grow from. I don’t think world peace will happen in our life time but I do believe a worldwide protest could happen because at this point, everyone is tired of this bullshit. Just sucks we haven’t met that breaking point yet.
I think you need to read more actual news. Shit is over.
What do you mean and what’s over?
It’s a good media outlet with high credibility in my opinion, but here it’s more important what the ambassador says. It’s not different from European officials’ statements (and those of my friends and colleagues in Europe and North America if I may say so).
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Thank you for sharing.
Russia has been:
Plus since 2022 basically Russian propaganda has been telling Russians that they are in a war with NATO / the West.
Wait, why are you saying all of this?
To say that yes, things have been escalating. And Russia has been doing the escalating.
That’s fair. I guess what I said and what I meant were two different things. My bad. I know there’s a continuous events happening just seems it’s been taken up a notch and you confirmed it.
Thank you for sharing.
Tends to lean right / pro-corporate since it’s a corporate news outlet - Bell Media (Bell Canada). It tends to be factual. Probably better than US corporate media.
I wouldn’t doubt it lol. Might be out center left compared to us ha.
What’s a good left informative outlet?
Compared to the US, we’re all degenerate communists that must be taken over because we’re wasting our resources on (somewhat) universal healthcare. :D
The Breach, The Walrus, The Tyee, there’s others. Instead of looking for someone’s bias rating or opinion, it’s easier to look at the ownership. Is it a small independent outlet, or is it a corporate one. These are all independent AFAIK and there are others like them. The things they write about and the perspectives they have are tend to be reliably different based on that distinction. An example of the class (up-down) spectrum being more informative than the left-right spectrum.
Jacobin, Freedom, die Tageszeitung