Canada’s middle power diplomacy is far from ‘errant nonsense’

It is not more money that NATO needs, rather new thinking to plan a common security agenda. Militarism has never gotten us far.

Foreign Affairs Minister Mélanie Joly has said Canada is not a nuclear power, but a middle power that is good at convening, fostering diplomacy, and influencing other countries to act in the interest of peace.The Hill Times Photograph by Sam Garcia

Opinion

BY DOUGLAS ROCHE

March 30, 2022

EDMONTON—In calling Mélanie Joly “a disgrace,” because she stood up for the vigorous exercise of Canadian diplomacy, Andrew Caddell has attacked not only the current foreign minister of Canada, but a long list of distinguished Canadian leaders, including Lester Pearson, Pierre Trudeau, Paul M...

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