Trudeau’s vote bank antics are hurting Canada-India relations yet again

The cultivation of narrow domestic vote banks in a highly multicultural democracy like Canada is vital for electoral survival, despite its inevitable consequences for the conduct of foreign policy.
This self-inflicted diplomatic fiasco is a stark reminder of Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s government’s bumbling foreign policy, and roiling global allies by virtue-signalling and playing appeasement politics has been a consistent hallmark of the Liberals, writes Joe Adam George.
In an unusual departure from convention and good diplomatic practice for a head of government, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau wittingly waded into a high-profile domestic crisis of longtime ally, India, where thousands of farmers—many of whom are Sikhs—have converged on the capital city of New De...

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