Munich: Canadian Foreign Minister Dwells on Foreign Interference in “National Security Threat”

By Rick Rozoff
Global Research, February 21, 2022
Anti-bellum 20 February 2022
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The clip as cued begins with a representative of the International Crisis Group speaking of stern if not draconian measures taken by countries with an “authoritarian drift,” then shifts to Canadian Foreign Minister Mélanie Joly who proceeds without the faintest indication she’d heard the words immediately preceding her own.

She not only used language that will be repeated in her nation’s parliament to justify and perhaps extend the enforcement of the Emergencies Act but that could, with a resumption and intensification of national protests, even be used to request a NATO Article 5 intervention (as of course she didn’t fail to repeat the government claim that arms had been found on one occasion), which begins with these words:

The Parties agree that an armed attack against one or more of them in Europe or North America shall be considered an attack against them all….

Video: Munich Security Conference 2022

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Rick Rozoff, renowned author and geopolitical analyst, actively involved in opposing war, militarism and interventionism for over fifty years. He manages the Anti-Bellum and For peace, against war website.

He is a Research Associate of the Centre for Research on Globalization (CRG).

Featured image: Canada’s Foreign Minister Mélanie Joly meeting with Canadian combat troops in Latvia last November. Photo: CBC.
Articles by: Rick Rozoff

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