Senior Fellow at the MacDonald Laurier Institute.
Joined December 2015
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Latest On The Line is going up right now. @ShimookaR on how much military power we need (and how much we can afford). Plus @BogochIsaac on Hanta virus and setting the panic level appropriately.
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“It’s pretty apparent that both China and Russia have been contributing to Iran’s war efforts,” says MLI Senior Fellow Richard Shimooka (@ShimookaR) on @BNNBloomberg.
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.@ShimookaR: The good (and lots of bad) in Canada’s new defence industrial strategy
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.@ShimookaR: Canada is shopping for new fighter jets—and on the verge of making a disastrous decision
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.@ShimookaR: From Donald Trump to Doug Ford, today’s leaders are living in Ronald Reagan’s shadow
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"For decades, Canada has completely ignored warnings by Americans & other @NATO allies about its dangerous lack of defence spending," notes @ShimookaR.
"The focus seems more about playing politics and parochial economic benefits."
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.@ShimookaR: Can the new Defence Investment Agency fix Canada’s procurement problems—or will politics slow that down too?
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Does #Canada’s defence policy lean too heavily on Europe?
@ShimookaR & @jbmllr argue our scarce resources would count for more in Asia—where #China’s rise poses the bigger threat:
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A short, Need to Know, by me on the recent submarine announcement. Ottawa faces choice of style or substance on the program: choose a riskier, slower option to build its relationship with Germany or acquire the Korean option rapidly to give the RCN real capabilities with a decade
Need to Know by @RoyceKoop, Christian Leuprecht, and @ShimookaR: Is the Liberals’ honeymoon coming to an end?
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.@ShimookaR: It’s not too late for the federal government to step in and solve the B.C. ferry fiasco
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Richard Shimooka (@ShimookaR): Eighty years later, the lessons of Hiroshima are still relevant
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Our latest podcast episode, featuring:
- @davidclement on supply management
- @MLInstitute's @ShimookaR on a "Grand Bargain" with the US
- @CDNConstFound's @JoshDehaas, "Know Your Rights: A Guide to Protest in Canada"
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@ShimookaR outlines how the absence of a sustained strategy or modernization plan keeps Canada’s #shipbuilding industry stuck in a damaging boom-and-bust pattern—one that hits workers & local communities the hardest during downturns:
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Richard Shimooka (@ShimookaR): Should Canada be all in on Trump’s ‘Golden Dome’ defence system?
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Provided some comments to the FT on Golden Dome and the $61B ask by Trump. Short answer: not happening, especially for a program at the extreme end of technical risk and unlikely to be pursued past his term, if not the mid-terms.
Trump offers Canada free ‘Golden Dome’ protection if it gives up sovereignty on.ft.com/4kBcnzd
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.@ShimookaR: Just how much does Carney care about Canada’s security?
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My latest in the Hub on the qualities that the next Minister of National Defence should have. TLDR: real clout within the Cabinet and with the PM and a managerial ability to see through the major modernization the CAF requires for the future.
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Richard Shimooka (@ShimookaR): Switching from the American to the European defence market sounds good—but it’s a terrible idea in practice
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Spent Saturday afternoon answering Canadians' questions on CBC's Just Asking with the fantastic Whitney Lackenbauer - we covered a wide array of questions and heard from Former Nunavut Premier Paul Quassa on his views of arctic security. cbc.ca/listen/live-radio/1-1…