From a foreign policy perspective, taking a sterner approach to Russia at this particular moment, is a terrible mistake.  At the moment, at least, it seems evident that Trumps goal is to improve relations between NATO, Europe, and Russia, so as to better encircle and contain the real threat, China.  I believe Canada also has much to gain in improving relations with Russia.  We have mutual interests with respect to the arctic, resource export  and exploitation, and would surely find more in common than not were we willing to get past our cold war bias and just look.  The sad thing is I thought Dion was a little too hard lined with respect to Russia.  Now we learn that it was probably all he could do to keep Canada's response to Russia as measured as it has been to date.