Two fewer meetings a year.
In practical terms, this is the impact of Washington’s decision to suspend the Canada-U.S. Permanent Joint Board on Defence — not an eviction from Norad fortress headquarters within a Colorado mountain, not an end to joint military exercises and exchanges.
Symbolically, though, the tweet on a slow-news holiday Monday from Elbridge (“Bridge”) Colby, a top adviser to U.S. Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth, sounds like a gangland threat uttered through clenched teeth: after all we’ve done together, are you really prepared to throw it all away, and have you really thought it through?
