Canada needs to address the biggest issues facing humanity, and not help the U.S. start a Cold War

Rather than tying ourselves to a U.S.-led march to folly, Canada should strive to make a valuable middle-power contribution by using its brainpower and diplomatic assets, working with like-minded partners, to help build a new world order that is more likely to bring peace rather than war.

Parroting the position of U.S. President Joe Biden's administration, Finance Minister Chrystia Freeland, in a recent Washington speech, signalled Canada’s support for, effectively, a league or concert of democracies that would exclude countries that did not follow Western practices.The Hill Times photograph by Andrew Meade

Opinion

BY DAVID CRANE

October 17, 2022

TORONTO—We are at a point where critical choices are being made that risk plunging humanity into a crisis worse even than those experienced in the two world wars of the 20th century, wars that cost millions of lives. This truly existential threat is climate change which represents the b...

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