OTTAWA — Gen. Wayne Eyre must feel like Cassandra, the King of Troy’s daughter, who was granted the gift of prophecy but struck by the curse that no one would believe her predictions.
The chief of the defence staff appeared at the public safety and national security committee on Parliament Hill last Thursday and warned in the starkest terms possible that dark forces are gathering in a “chaotic and dangerous world” and that Canada’s geographic isolation is no longer a viable defence against them. Russia and China already “consider themselves to be at war with the West,” he said. They are interested, not just in “regime survival, but in regime expansion.”
