Brazil: a catalyst of plurilateralism

Brazil has demonstrated its ability to mobilize states and non-state actors around specific issues and solutions, engaging partners in the global south and north, the west and the east. Canada could learn from this.

Brazil President Luiz Lula da Silva at an event in Fortaleza, Brazil, on March 12, 2025. In the space of 13 months, led by efforts from Lula, Brazil has catalyzed coalitions of the willing on hunger, artificial intelligence, forests, and more, Edward Jackson writes. Photograph courtesy of Ricardo Stuckert/Wkimedia Commons

Opinion

BY EDWARD JACKSON

January 2, 2026

Brazil is redefining internationalism. Canada should pay attention.

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