Canada would do well to heed the warnings of Ukrainian officials. They have the experience of hard history in their dealings with Russian imperialism.
 
We witness today the dismal failings of Obama's weak but genuine diplomatic efforts with Russia over the Syrian conflict and Putin's blatant military annexation of Crimea and his continuing aggression in East Ukraine all the while claiming ' Russian troops are not there".

Putin has heavily militarised former Soviet bases on the Russian side of the Arctic and he means business. 

In spite of Trudeau's 'sunny days approach' and belief in human kind, he is solely ill equipped to deal meaningfully with someone like Putin who defies all international conventions and plays by his own rules to achieve his own end game.