Canada needs to fix its foreign policy in a troubled world

Global Affairs Canada and the Department of National Defence clearly have to be more than clones of their U.S. counterparts. Canadian policy must be driven by a precise focus on our own national interests.

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, pictured June 6, 2022, in Ottawa. Too often, Canada has sacrificed its interests or pursued policies contrary to our stated values to curry favour with the U.S., writes David Crane. The Hill Times photograph by Andrew Meade

Opinion

BY DAVID CRANE

June 27, 2022

TORONTO—There are growing signs of unhappiness with Canada’s foreign policy—or more accurately, perhaps, the lack of a coherent foreign policy, one that safeguards Canada’s interests for the increasingly troubled and difficult world we seem likely to face over the next decade and beyond. Thi...

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