Canada should keep Security Council seat campaign alive: reach out to Africa; use Mulroney; be authentic

There are many lessons to learn from such a loss; chiefly that any leader in the Prime Minister's Office should be keeping the Security Council election file alive and ready to pass it on, in the case of a change in political leadership in the country. 
South Africa's President Cyril Ramaphosa, left, is a seasoned diplomat and if Canada could have a strong relationship with him, it would help re-establish the once strong relationship Canada had with South Africa and other countries on the African continent, writes Tshweu Moleme.
TORONTO—Canada had a decade to campaign for a seat on the UN Security Council and it was disappointing to see us defeated again. 

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