Where is Canada in the South Caucasus?

Beyond the immediate compromised situation into which Canada stumbled over arms sales, Canada should also have been able to play a more constructive role in the security dynamics in the region over the last decades.

Canada should have been able to rely on its own reading of the regional dynamics in the first place to have understood—in advance—where Canadian arms would likely end up, despite Turkey’s end user assurances to the contrary, writes Christopher Waters.Photograph courtesy of Pixabay

Opinion

BY CHRISTOPHER WATERS

May 19, 2021

In a rare visit to Georgia by a high-level Canadian official in the late 1990s, the Speaker of the Senate attended an official banquet in Tbilisi hosted his Georgian counterpart. The banquet was unusually short by Georgian standards, a country famed for its joyous feasts (or supras) of mult...

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