At the tail end of last week’s G7 summit in Niagara, France’s foreign minister condemned U.S. boat strikes in the Caribbean as unlawful. The United Kingdom also appears to have determined that intelligence-sharing in these operations could render it complicit in extrajudicial killings, and it has reportedly paused such co-operation.

Yet Canada’s foreign minister has taken the position that it is for “U.S. authorities,” not international counterparts, to determine the lawfulness of U.S. strikes. One wonders if she would take the same position if the strikes were killing Canadians.

Canadians are rightly concerned about the United States’ authoritarian turn, marked by Donald Trump’s seemingly unconstrained expansionist rhetoric and tariff roulette . The collapse of lega

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