Carney is wrong to accept war as an instrument of foreign policy

Like all politicians, Mark Carney is doing what he has to do to survive. The poetry of his Davos speech has met the pragmatism of the public arena. Whether 'values-based realism' will make him a great leader remains to be seen.

Prime Minister Mark Carney absented himself from a debate on the most important foreign policy issue Canada has faced since Jean Chrétien kept Canada out of the Iraq war in 2003. It isn’t hard to figure out why Carney stayed away. It was the best way of removing himself from Trump’s line of vision, writes Douglas Roche. The Hill Times photograph by Andrew Meade

Opinion

BY DOUGLAS ROCHE

March 16, 2026

EDMONTON—At the end of the House's lacklustre debate on the Iran war on March 9, it was two courageous MPs—NDP interim leader Don Davies and Green Party Leader Elizabeth May, sitting so far back they’re practically in the hallway—who told the truth about Canada’s m...

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