Is the political machinery of government killing idealism?

Has Bob Rae been reined in and become a bureaucrat? Has Marc Garneau the astronaut become Garneau the politician?

Foreign Affairs Minister Marc Garneau, left, and Bob Rae. Can Garneau actually break through the stranglehold his own government has put on key security issues well identified by the UN? Why has Rae, the much-acclaimed Canadian ambassador to the UN who entered the post with bold statements of justice for the tragic numbers of refugees in the world and dramatic action for climate change, toned down his vision, writes Douglas Roche. The Hill Times photographs by Andrew Meade

Opinion

BY DOUGLAS ROCHE

October 4, 2021

EDMONTON—Foreign Minister Marc Garneau began his speech to the UN General Assembly on Sept. 27 in a way no other foreign minister had ever done in the history of the organization. Garneau introduced himself as a former astronaut: “I had the opportunity to see the entire world from the vantage po...

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