New Delhi, June 7 -- The man who spent years warning Parliament that Canada was already in an undeclared strategic contest with China went public again on Sunday, and this time the target of his warning was his own government's foreign policy.

and when.

Five months have passed since Prime Minister Mark Carney flew to Beijing and announced what his government called a "strategic partnership" with China, securing reduced tariffs on Canadian canola in exchange for lowering duties on Chinese electric vehicles. The deal was framed as the centrepiece of Canada's drive to double exports to non-U.S. markets by 2035. Eyre's intervention amounts to the most senior military voice yet to question whether that arithmetic holds.

"Canada needs to be ...