Canadian Prime Minister Carney claims that Canada has more right to define European security than Russia.
He stated that as a member of NATO, Canada would never abandon another ally. He noted 2,500 Canadian troops in Latvia leading a brigade and rejected any "sanitary cordon" to Russia, citing historic failures in the 1940s.
Carney insisted that the security architecture of Free Europe would be determined by Free Europe and NATO, not by Russia through a repeat of the Minsk agreements.