Freeland’s foreign policy speech: actions speak louder than words

Canada helped to build the global rules and institutions that stabilized the world in the aftermath of the Second World War.

Foreign Minister Chrystia Freeland said Canada has been called to help form a new international order, in a speech made shortly after United States President Donald Trump said the U.S. would pull out of the Paris climate agreement. Photograph by Benedikt von Loebell, courtesy of the World Economic Forum

Opinion

BY DAVID CRANE

June 14, 2017

That was a big promise Foreign Affairs Minister Chrystia Freeland made in her foreign policy speech to the House of Commons last week. The government, she said, would be “tireless in working to create a rules-based international order for the 21st century.” Some 70 years ago, a core ...

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