Leaders in a leaderless world

Politics at the highest levels in Britain, Germany, and France is in disarray. And Russia and China are united in an unwavering quest to destroy the world’s democracies.

President Volodymyr Zelenskyy has spearheaded a Ukrainian resistance against all odds, and Prime Minister Mark Carney's attempts to provide global leadership have lent Canada an international standing of a kind unknown for many decades, writes Les Whittington.Photograph courtesy of Ukraine Office of the President and The Hill Times photograph by Andrew Meade

Opinion

BY LES WHITTINGTON

June 24, 2026

OTTAWA—On Feb. 26, 2022, as Russian forces closed in on the Ukrainian capital with the mission of eliminating President Volodymyr Zelenskyy, the United States and other countries offered to evacuate him in the face of the all-out invasion.

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