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Things are changing rapidly with European defences and Canada’s role:
From today’s EU State of the Union speech:
https://ec.europa.eu/commission/presscorner/detail/ov/SPEECH_26_1868
[…] Europe needs its own counter-hybrid playbook. We urgently need a consensus on how to respond to certain incidents. Those which fall below armed aggression but clearly threaten our national security. In other words, a mechanism to flank NATO’s ‘Article 4’.
I believe it is time for Europe’s own Article 4 – or an Emergency Security Protocol. When triggered by one Member State, all Member States would convene. To coordinate a European response. To deter further escalation. And to mitigate the impact.
And I believe we must go further still.
For a long time, we have discussed a leaders’ format focused on the security of our continent. With partners like Canada, Norway, Ukraine, the United Kingdom and others involved.
This is even more urgent now, given the nature and scale of the risks at play. This is why we will set out our ideas to make a European Security Council a reality.
Press release from the Canadian Government:
[…]Prime Minister Carney announced that Canada has formally applied to join the Joint Expeditionary Force and welcomed the UK’s support for Canada’s participation in this important initiative.
Prime Minister Carney and Prime Minister Burnham also discussed opportunities for defence industrial cooperation through the Global Combat Air Programme (GCAP), which Canada joined as an observer in July 2026.
Canada and the UK continue to work toward a new permanent arrangement to modernise British Army Training Unit Suffield (BATUS) through the BATUS Future Project. The Project will showcase CFB Suffield as a world-class facility for the development and testing of new equipment and cutting-edge technology.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joint_Expeditionary_Force
The Joint Expeditionary Force (abbr. JEF) is a United Kingdom-led Northern European multi-national military partnership designed for rapid response and expeditionary operations. It consists of the United Kingdom, the Nordic countries (Denmark, Finland, Iceland, Norway, Sweden), the Baltic states (Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania), and the Netherlands.[2] The UK is the lead nation of the partnership, and operational command is led by the Standing Joint Force Headquarters based at Northwood Headquarters, Hertfordshire.[3]
The JEF was established in 2014, and it has been fully operational since June 2018.[2][1] It is not part of NATO, but all of its members are also NATO member states.[2] It can act independently in its own right, but it can also be deployed in support of NATO or other cooperative ventures, for example as part of a United Nations peacekeeping force.
Canada already has military forces stationed in Latvia and has just signed a defence agreement with the Ukraine.
