It’s time Canada had a national conversation on a new foreign policy

Most politicians have muddled along when it comes to foreign policy, confident in the benign intentions of the superpower to the south and secure behind three oceans, reaping the benefits of a stable rules-based international order without having to worry about the maintenance of it.

After Prime Minister Justin Trudeau's failed UN Security Council bid, there have been growing calls for Canada to take stock of its foreign policy agenda. At the same time, as poll after poll suggests that Canadians, by and large, do not care much about foreign policy.The Hill Times photograph by Andrew Meade

Opinion

BY BALKAN DEVLEN

June 22, 2020

The calls for a foreign policy review will only intensify after Canada has failed to secure a seat at the United Nations Security Council. We might even get one or at least a promise of one if there is a majority government after the next election. But for such an und...

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