[Yardstick]

Foreign Minister Chrystia Freeland told Parliament that relying on the “the U.S. security umbrella would make us a client state.”

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Interesting verb tenses here. She treats being a client state as a future possibility. But by her logic hasn’t Canada been a client state for decades?

[Olog-hai]

More “us versus them” rhetoric. Freeland, as a former journalistic hack at Reuters and now a political hack for the Liberal Party, uses this as her forte.