With an ambitious domestic policy budget, Liberals leave little for foreign affairs

'The contrast is jarring between huge ambition at home and no ambition abroad,' says former Canadian diplomat Ben Rowswell on the Liberals' new budget.

In the first budget since becoming Canada's top diplomat, Foreign Affairs Minister Marc Garneau hasn't been tasked with a laundry list of new initiatives to pursue. The Hill Times photograph by Andrew Meade

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BY NEIL MOSS

April 28, 2021

While the Trudeau Liberal government focused on a domestic recovery from the public health and economic crises brought on by the COVID-19 pandemic, it left foreign policy largely ignored in its first budget in two years. Ambitious plans for childcare and Indigenous spending were unveiled in the Apr...

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