Abstract:

Several prominent media commentators subsequently attacked the “Helpful Fixer” article after it was published. As usual, they focused on the projection of “Canadian Values” (as defined exclusively by them, of course) and the lack of discussion I provided on that topic. In this response, I argue that Canadian interests should prevail in the formulation of national security policy, not abstract and debatable “values.” The combination of the two articles, when combined with the efforts of Don Macnamara at Queen’s University, were in the forefront of “interests-based” national security policy now being (beletedly) adopted by other commentators in the national security field in Canada.