The editors have invited me to comment on this, and I agree entirely with the piece they published. Shortly after, he informed France and the U.K. that Canada would not sell them uranium for military purposes. He procured the uranium elsewhere and repaid Pearson by coming to Quebec in 1967 and publicly advising the province to secede from Canada. It is as if we had learned nothing since we generously shut down most of our aviation industry in 1959. As every serious statesman in the world since Richelieu has known, countries have durable interests; the constancy of friends fluctuates.

Source: National Post April 03, 2020 21:00 UTC