1. Dan Middlemiss & Joel Sokolsky, “Canadian defence: decisions and determinants”, (Toronto: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich Canada, 1989) pp.121–22 &195.
2. R.L. Sutherland, “Canada’s long term strategic situation”, International Journal, 17.3 (1962) pp.99–201
3. Jeffrey F. Collins, “Reviving and revising the Canada First defence strategy”, C2C Journal, 8.3 (2014) pp.24–28
4. William L. Dowdy, “The Canadian navy: torpedoed again”, Armed Forces & Society, 16.1 (1989) p.111. The author makes a poignant remark on Canadian defense, Canadians “… prefer daycare over destroyers, and socialized medicine over submarines. But they can afford both, and maybe they cannot afford not to provide both.”
5. David Perry, “A return to realism: Canadian defence policy after the great recession”, Defence Studies, 13:3 (2013) pp.340–42 & 344–45