OTTAWA — The promise, yet again, that Canada will soon produce a new and long-awaited national security strategy would be laughable if it were not so late in coming, a perennial work in progress, not to mention fairly relevant right now.

The latest word is that sometime in the new year, weeks after the U.S. threw down its own aggressive America First plan on the desks of global leaders, the Liberal government will present Canada’s vision of the main threats to national sovereignty and security, and how best to tackle them.

Public Safety Minister Gary Anandasangaree, admitted he had not yet read the 33-page American document by Thursday, a week after the White House published it. He said is “getting briefed” on the Trump plan, and the Carney government will present its vision in the comin

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