Canada lacks moral authority to be righteous about Russia

Russian President Vladimir Putin was wrong to invade Ukraine, but where was this moral outrage from the Canadian government when similar atrocities were committed in Iraq and Libya?

The Canadian government has soundly denounced Russian President Vladimir Putin’s aggression, but where was the collective outrage over then-U.S. president Donald Trump announcing he had used a mother-of-all-bombs against Afghans in 2017, writes Scott Taylor. Photograph courtesy of Wikimedia Commons

Opinion

BY SCOTT TAYLOR

April 4, 2022

OTTAWA—The war in Ukraine has certainly served to highlight the emotional hypocrisy that exists among Canadians. Russia was wrong to invade Ukraine. President Vladimir Putin lied to the Russian people and the world by claiming that Ukrainians would greet his soldiers as liberators. The Canadian ...

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