Canadian government puts politics ahead of people in Sudan

If left unchecked, the political class will always make policy decisions based not on legal, moral, or rational evaluation, but on angling electoral cohorts.

This is not the first time the Liberals have been caught flat-footed in an evacuation emergency. This same Sudanese script was acted out in 2021 in Afghanistan, a file for which Immigration Minister Sean Fraser has taken some heat, writes Bhagwant Sandhu. The Hill Times photograph by Andrew Meade

Opinion

BY BHAGWANT SANDHU

May 4, 2023

OTTAWA—The Trudeau government’s delay in evacuating Canadian nationals out of Sudan is yet another case of political calculations taking primacy over policy decisions. Or, to be more exact, how politicians are solving global problems with domestic politics. It should con...

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