Opinion: This is the week when Canadians will get a chance to see how Justin Trudeau’s government measured up when faced with a real and present threat to national security, SusanDelacourt writes.
One year ago, the federal government marked Valentine’s Day with a declaration of emergency.I can’t be the only one to joke that after successive crises — from Donald Trump to a global pandemic, from a convoy occupation to war in Europe — of course the federal government’s next big challenge would come from outer space. All the other crisis possibilities on Earth have been used up.
On the face of it, the two incidents couldn’t be any more different, apart from the fact that the threats are vehicle-based; trucks last year, flying contraptions this year. The balloons, or whatever they are, have not arrived with any stated political agenda or grievance. On Tuesday, the White House even indicated that three of the latest objects shot down could well be “benign.”
On Tuesday, my colleague Stephanie Levitz asked Public Safety Minister Marco Mendicino why the government hadn’t convened a special cabinet meeting of this type, given how Trudeau and other ministers have been framing this as a national security issue. The minister said the top-level call between Biden and Trudeau was proof that national security was being taken seriously. “We’ll continue to use every tool in our arsenal.”It is worth noting that in the case of the Chinese weather balloon — the incursion that started this flurry of UFO obsession — the Canadian government was accused of being far too casual about the object when it first floated through this nation’s air space. It wasn’t until the balloon arrived in the U.S.
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