Diplomatic Circles

To become a global soft power, Canada should sever diplomatic relations with Russia

How far must Russia go for Canada to re-evaluate the behaviour it will tolerate from other states before severing diplomatic ties?

The Russian embassy in Ottawa. Maintaining a diplomatic and economic relationship with a regime that commits genocide sets a disturbing legal and political precedent for the Canadian government, writes Monastiriakos. The Hill Times photograph by Sam Garcia

Opinion

BY GEORGE MONASTIRIAKOS

August 22, 2022

The full-scale Russian invasion of Ukraine, like the annexation of Crimea, and the occupation of Georgia and Moldova before it, is the latest phase in the defining ideological struggle of the 21st Century: between coun...

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