Canada needs to regain its independence from U.S. foreign policy—especially on China

Trudeau needs to bring the CSIS leakers to justice, and quickly. With bureaucracy gone rogue, it won’t be China or the Conservatives he will have to worry about, but rather Canada's very survival as a democratic, self-determining nation.

Notwithstanding his image as a hip internationalist, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s realpolitik engagement in the world has been nothing short of 1960s-style American imperialism, writes Bhagwant Sandhu. The Hill Times photograph by Andrew Meade

Opinion

BY BHAGWANT SANDHU

May 22, 2023

OTTAWA—The deterioration of the Canada-China relationship is a conflation of three separate trajectories: a pig-headed pursuit of American hegemony by the Trudeau Liberals, an effective campaign by the Conservatives to box the prime minister in on China, and Canada’s sec...

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