Sanctions do nothing to promote democracy

What works in foreign policy is diplomacy, negotiations, and ethical consistency, which is hard to do when you are busy trying to topple governments.

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s government has sanctioned over 2,100 Russian individuals and entities since the start of the war in Ukraine. Sanctions, it turns out, disenfranchise the poor, not the political elites, writes Bhagwant Sandhu.The Hill Times photograph by Andrew Meade

Opinion

BY BHAGWANT SANDHU

May 16, 2024

OTTAWA—A consensus is emerging that democracy is on the downturn. Some blame the decline on social media, others on the rise of despotism and the lack of political

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