Government takes defensive action against new U.S. reality

Freeland's speech was rightly described as Canada's most assertive foreign policy declaration since the advent of the new administration.

Although Foreign Affairs Minister Chrystia Freeland never mentioned Trump by name, he was in the subtext of her entire speech last week in the House, writes Chantal Hébert. The Hill Times photograph by Jake Wright

Opinion

BY CHANTAL HÉBERT

June 12, 2017

MONTREAL—The Liberal foreign policy statement on June 6 and national defence reset a day later are interlocking pieces of the same political puzzle. To examine one in isolation from the other is to risk distorting the picture. In different but related ways, both reflect a Donald Trump-imposed sh...

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