Patrick Lennox argues that the torpedoing of the IRIS Dena exposes a moral crisis in Canada’s defence posture. His claim is that Canada has built too much of its security architecture on assumptions about American restraint, legality, and shared values that may no longer hold.
“Do we know who the good guys are here?”
“That might be gone now.”
“[O]ur interoperability with this regime is accordingly untenable”
Patrick Lennox, “Canada Can’t Pretend America Is Still the Good Guy,” The Walrus, 06-Apr-2026
🇨🇦⚓️ Patrick Lennox argues that the sinking of Iran’s IRIS Dena shattered a Canadian defence illusion: interoperability with Washington is not morally neutral if the US no longer respects restraint, law, or allies. #Canada #Defence #Iran