Just as the lifetime anti-communist Richard Nixon could be entrusted to re-establish relations with Red China in 1972, so too can Trudeau ink a military deal with the U.S. without appearing to be a U.S. lackey

The plan was to go to Boeing to purchase new Super Hornets the latest and vastly improved variant of the F-18s. But Boeing has become a bit of a problem for Trudeau, so we're getting some hand-me-downs from our Aussie cousins.

If anything, the announcement of several hundred fewer troops to be deployed... somewhere... was both an admission that there are no viable peacekeeping operations to join in this world today, and an acknowledgement that Trudeau has no plans to reboot Canada's peacekeeping operations.