Canada Stands Firm on NATO Expansion

Published April 1, 2009

Despite hardening opposition among European allies to Ukraine and, particularly, Georgia joining NATO, Canada will stand firmly behind the two NATO aspirants at an alliance summit in Strasbourg, France later this week.

At the last NATO summit in Bucharest in April 2008, France, Germany and other Western European nations were apprehensive about extending membership to Ukraine and Georgia, fearing it would...