Break-up of world economy into competing blocs poses huge risk to human society

If Canada wants to be useful in the world, we should be a champion for multilateralism, as we once were.

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, seen recently on the Hill. Canada is 'among the loudest voices for fragmentation, friend-shoring and all the other simplistic impulses that have us on course for a much more dangerous and difficult world,' writes David Crane.The Hill Times photograph by Andrew Meade

Opinion

BY DAVID CRANE

October 16, 2023

TORONTO—The fragmentation of the world economy into competing blocs poses huge risks to the future well-being of human society. Fragmentation will mean a more divided world where essential solutions—on climate, financial crises or new pandemics—will be much harder to r...

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