We are now in a multipolar world

Our world will become even more crowded and more threatening in the years ahead. Our best hope for a safer and more secure world will be a diverse one in which democracies shine by example, but in which other systems can co-exist. That is the message that Canada should be taking to the world. But so far, all we have is silence.

Michael Kovrig, left, and Michael Spavor, right. Our two Michaels are in Chinese prisons because Canada became a pawn in the U.S. Cold War with China, with the U.S. pushing Canada to extradite Meng Wanzhou to the U.S.Photographs handouts

Opinion

BY DAVID CRANE

August 5, 2021

TORONTO—It was U.S. president George W. Bush who coined the phrase “coalition of the willing." The members of his coalition were those nations who joined the U.S. on the invasion and occupation of Iraq. “Those who are not with us are against us,” Bush proclaimed. Canada wiggled out of Iraq, ...

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