Trudeau failed to live up to initial foreign policy promise, says past foreign minister Axworthy

'We lacked that kind of real sense of: what do we want to see happen in the world?' says former top diplomat Lloyd Axworthy.

Dominica Prime Minister Roosevelt Skerrit, left, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, and CARICOM Secretary-General Carla Natalie Barnett arrive for the CARICOM-Canada summit in Ottawa on Oct. 18, 2023.The Hill Times photograph by Andrew Meade

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BY NEIL MOSS

March 12, 2025

Coming to power with the expectation of boosting Canada’s international role, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau will leave his post having failed to live up to those hopes, say foreign policy observers.

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