Prime Minister Stephen Harper

Stephen Harper: Prime Minister Stephen Harper echoed the remarks when he said in the House of Commons Tuesday, "What we've seen is the decision of a major power to effectively invade and occupy a neighbouring country based on some kind of extra-territorial claim of jurisdiction over ethnic minorities. We haven't seen this kind of behaviour since the Second World War." , according to CBC. Harper also announced that all planned bilateral activities between the Canadian Armed Forces and the military of the Russian Federation are suspended, including exercises such as s Exercise Vigilant Eagle. Foreign Affairs Minister John Baird has repeated his charge that Russia's occupation of Crimea is like Germany's annexation of Sudetenland, Czechoslovakia, just before the Second World War in 1938. Until yesterday, Conservatives had been making comparisons to the Cold War when speaking of Russian President Vladimir Putin's move to send troops to Crimea. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.