Trudeau must make foreign policy course correction for South America

Canada is at a crossroads. We can choose to be pragmatic and stop our antagonism against rise of progressive politics in South America, or we can keep digging ourselves deeper down the rabbit hole of free-market fundamentalism.

The election of social-democratic governments across South America puts Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and his foreign policy postures in a tight spot, writes Bhagwant Sandhu.The Hill Times photograph by Andrew Meade

Opinion

BY BHAGWANT SANDHU

July 8, 2022

Canadian prime ministers have always exhibited an intense idiosyncratic hostility towards left-leaning governments in South America –with the possible exception of Cuba. This has fluctuated between turning a blind eye as right-wing juntas slaughtered environmentalists and human rights workers, to ...

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