Planning for Canadian foreign and trade policy in post-COVID world

Canada has an important role to play in global affairs, but only with a fulsome and substantive review of our foreign policy can we hope to be ready for what is to come.

Foreign Affairs Minister François-Philippe Champagne, pictured in this file photograph at the National Press Theatre in Ottawa. When the immediate crisis subsides, it will be important for Canada to take stock of how the COVID-19 crisis further demonstrated Canada’s lack of preparedness for the emerging world order and the need to re-think Canada’s position in the world through a complete review of Canada’s foreign and trade policies, write Robert W. Murray and Jean-Sébastien Rioux.The Hill Times photograph by Andrew Meade

Opinion

BY ROBERT W. MURRAY AND JEAN-SéBASTIEN RIOUX

April 23, 2020

CALGARY—The actors and processes in the international system have undergone significant change over the last five years, including Brexit, the election of U.S. President Donald Trump, the rise of populism in Western democracies, the relative decline of the United States and rise of powers like Chi...

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