Trudeau’s rose-tinted history avoids reality of Ukrainian support

By every conventional measure, Canada is involved in a proxy war with Russia.

While I am certainly in agreement with Prime Minister Justin Trudeau over the fact that Putin’s invasion of Ukraine is illegal, to claim this act of aggression shattered eight decades of world peace is just dumb, writes Scott Taylor.The Hill Times photograph by Andrew Meade

Opinion

BY SCOTT TAYLOR

April 19, 2023

OTTAWA—On April 11, during the visit of Ukraine’s Prime Minster Denys Shmyhal to Ottawa, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said something so quantifiably dumb that I had to replay the video clip to ensure I had not misunderstood his comments.

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