Canada helped make NATO a political forum. Now it struggles with its own creation

Lester B. Pearson — Canada’s 14th prime minister, Nobel Peace Prize winner and Liberal icon — is most likely spinning in his grave this week.

For a number of reasons.

You probably know him as the venerated, even celebrated, architect of peacekeeping, that cherished instrument of Canadian political and foreign policy, which in the current global context seems quaint and uncomplicated.

So Pearson infected NATO with the period’s version of WOKE.  I always said he was a communist.