Canada’s détente with China useful leverage in UN Security Council seat bid

It's time for Canada to double down for a UN Security Council seat, as the voice of the voiceless, both domestically and internationally, and align more assertively with the views of those being pressured from all sides.

Foreign Minister Chrystia Freeland listens to Prime Minister Justin Trudeau speak at the UN General Assembly in September 2017. Canada is well placed to defend common causes and should be trusted to speak diplomatically and honestly at the UN Security Council, writes Pascal Desbiens. UN photograph by Cia Pak

Opinion

BY PASCAL DESBIENS

June 19, 2019

Isn’t it ironic that after close to 50 years of efforts to nurture Canada-China diplomatic relations, Canada can’t arrange meetings and phone calls at the leader’s level to discuss contentious bilateral issues? No, it is not, and it does not deserve any knee-jerk reactions, despite what some ...

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