I think Canadians value peace. Canada is a peaceful nation that wants to live in peace. Unfortunately, to achieve that peace, we still need armed forces because our enemies have them.
I believe that Ukrainians would have liked Canadians to help them before the full-scale invasion of their territory rather than receive non-lethal equipment from Canada before the same invasion. That is why we need to better align our humanitarian values. We have to understand one thing: We live in a world where states armed with nuclear weapons want to invade their neighbours. Peace will not be achieved with pretty speeches. Regrettably, we have to have a credible defence policy and support our allies, otherwise they will be at the mercy of those states.
We see what is currently happening in the United States. There is a potential future American president who is able to state publicly that he will let his enemies invade American partners and their allies if they do not live up to American expectations.
We live in an extremely unstable world. To guard against that and achieve peace, we have to arm ourselves and arm our allies. There's no way around it.