Trump has drawn Trudeau out of Canada’s multilateral comfort zone

On Trump’s Syrian strike, Canadians may find Trudeau’s logic hard to follow.

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, pictured in February, took a firmer stance in support of U.S. President Donald Trump's air strikes in Syria than the leaders of France and Germany, writes Chantal Hébert.The Hill Times photograph by Andrew Meade

Opinion

BY CHANTAL HÉBERT

April 12, 2017

MONTREAL—It took Justin Trudeau close to 12 hours to issue a definitive statement on United States President Donald Trump's surprise missile strikes on the Syrian regime, but in the end he made a black-and-white choice. Just a few hours before the U.S. strikes, the prime minister was still insist...

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