Happy Canada Day! Pass the vodka cooler and thank God we’re a middle power

The dock may be outside your isolation perimeter and the barbecue could set your mask on fire, but at least we’re still a democracy.

Justin Trudeau’s rule-of-law orthodoxy in response to Beijing’s norm-obliterating hostage diplomacy has isolated him in a way that says far more about China’s role in our current global unpleasantness than it does about Trudeau’s entirely normal position, writes Lisa Van Dusen. The Hill Times photograph by Andrew Meade, Flickr photograph by Janne Wittoeck

Opinion

BY LISA VAN DUSEN

July 1, 2020

It’s tempting, at a time like this—not that there’s ever been, let’s face it, a time like this—to say that this is the weirdest Canada Day ever in peacetime. It’s the sort of context-setting line that makes for a perfectly serviceable lede. The kind of lede that conjures visions of reade...

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