The link between image and influence: why Canada needs cultural diplomacy

Canada's low spending on cultural diplomacy raises a fundamental question about whether we understand its relevance and the consequences of our failure to invest in it.

Foreign Affairs Minister Marc Garneau is pictured. The new Parliament, and the next budget, should take up a recommendation from a recent Senate committee to make cultural diplomacy 'a pillar of Canada’s foreign policy,' writes John Graham.The Hill Times photograph by Andrew Meade

Opinion

BY JOHN GRAHAM

October 11, 2021

A decade ago John Baird, then Canada's foreign minister, withdrew the funding for the...

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