“Should Canada increase its military involvement in the Indo-Pacific region?”

Ernie Regehr, Senior Fellow in Arctic Security and Defence

Arguments presented by Ernie Regehr, Senior Fellow in Arctic Security and Defence at The Simons Foundation Canada and David Bercuson of the University of Calgary’s Centre for Military, Security, and Strategic Studies
Published by Legion Magazine
February 15, 2022

 

This issue is debated in the January/February 2022 issue of Legion Magazine, with Ernie Regehr arguing the “No” side and David Bercuson, of the University of Calgary’s Centre for Military, Security, and Strategic Studies, arguing “Yes.” 

Regehr argues that while “military exercises like the Rim of the Pacific Exercise, which in 2020 involved about 500 CAF personnel and two frigates are part of Canada’s engagement with the Indo-Pacific,…it is the tempo of multilateral diplomatic engagement, not military operations, that needs to increase.” It is “diplomacy to promote strategic stability talks and build broad regional support for collective responses to Indo-Pacific security challenges that will ultimately facilitate the stability on which the region’s security depends.”

The debate is part of the magazine’s “Face to Face” feature. To view the full debate, visit Legion Magazine through this link:

“Should Canada increase its military involvement in the Indo-Pacific region?”

 

 

Ernie Regehr, O.C. is Senior Fellow in Arctic Security and Defence at The Simons Foundation Canada, and Research Fellow at the Centre for Peace Advancement, Conrad Grebel University College, University of Waterloo.