Early Afghanistan focus unlikely to place campaign spotlight on oft-ignored foreign policy, say experts and politicos

While the Afghan crisis has emerged as an issue in the early days of the campaign, foreign policy expert Thomas Juneau says he doesn't expect that to last.

U.S. Marines are pictured on Aug. 20 participating in an evacuation at Hamid Karzai International Airport in Kabul. The rapidly deteriorating situation in Afghanistan has been centre stage in the early days of the campaign. The Hill Times photographs by Andrew Meade and Sam Garcia, and photograph courtesy of Twitter/U.S. Marines

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BY NEIL MOSS

August 25, 2021

Absent from many election campaigns, foreign policy has emerged on the trail amid an mounting humanitarian crisis in Afghanistan, but many doubt it will lead to Canada's role in the world becoming a ballot issue for voters. Prime Minister Justin Trudeau (Papineau, Que.) has begun a number of campai...

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