Canada needs a made-in-Canada China policy, now

This unfolding drama runs the risk of putting Canada in an impossible position down the road. Failure to appreciate the magnitude of Chinese power and its resolve to assume its rightful place in the international order could lead Canada to being sidelined in any resolution to the gathering storm or worse.

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, pictured recently outside the Rideau Cottage in Ottawa. The current government has frustratingly not been frank with the Canadian public about where it stands on China, writes Richard Desjardins. Photograph courtesy of THE CANADIAN PRESS/Sean Kilpatrick/POOL

Opinion

BY RICHARD DESJARDINS

June 30, 2021

The debate over China policy in Canada has now dived into partisan politics to the extreme. Thanks to the Meng Wanzhou affair, Canadian policy on China has exposed its flaws: no clear guidelines that could offer some direction to our relation with China and help manage challenges that inevitably pre...

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