i don't understand who in their right mind would think that occupying latvia, which is a russian colony by any understanding of it's history and which has absolutely no value to canada whatsoever, would have greater strategic value to canadian interests than maintaining peacekeeping forces in congo or sudan, where brutal genocidal conflicts involving expanding arabic colonialism are raging and threatening to trigger into a third world war. 

canada should pull it's forces out of europe and put them in africa, not pull it's forces out of africa and put them in europe.

but what's going on here is the continuation of carney's trump wannabe foreign policy, where he criticizes america first for the cameras, but legislates it at every possible opportunity.

putting canadian troops in latvia does not make the world safer or expand canadian interests. however, removing canadian troops from africa makes the world a more dangerous place and harms canadian interests, by generating further push factors for immigration, by further encouraging systemic overpopulation and by increasing the likelihood of the spread of dangerous diseases.