Maybe all-hands-on deck should be the new watchword for Canada’s foreign policy

Our failing grade on international aid and peacekeeping were part of the reason that Canada did not succeed. The other part had to do with strategy.

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, pictured June 18, 2020, at the Rideau Cottage in Ottawa. The bruising his reputation will take is likely only an international blemish, not a domestic disaster. But on the home front, the government really needs to undertake a major review of our foreign policy, writes Sheila Copps. The Hill Times photograph by Andrew Meade

Opinion

BY SHEILA COPPS

June 22, 2020

OTTAWA—The bad news is that Canada lost its second bid for a seat on the United Nations Security Council. The good news is that most Canadians don’t really care. In autopsying the defeat, a journalist said that had the seat been secured, the discussion would have been around the irrelevance of...

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