In the absence of leadership from the planet’s aspiring hegemons, it’s no wonder there’s a call for the formation of coalitions of like-minded middle powers to address what are effectively threats to the planet, including global warming.
The country can ill afford to be perceived as serving as an instrument effectively protecting the legacies of two heads of government indicted on charges of corruption from judicial prosecution.
We have good reason to be concerned by the poison of misinformation and hate that willfully seeks to undermine our democratic norms and institutions.
Instead of acknowledging the moral imperative of reducing global inequality, the government has chosen to further cut an already paltry foreign aid budget by $2.7-billion over the next four years.
If the U.S. president chooses to continue giving Russia the benefit of the doubt, Canada will need to find some distance.
The new global development paradigm will need to be eco- rather than ego-centric.
Many would agree that we are at what constitutes another 1944 moment—a pivotal time necessitating major structural reforms of policies and institutions.
Perhaps our next federal government needs to create a more internally integrated economy specializing in knowledge-intensive activities that rely less on the export of our diminishing stock of natural resources and more on its local transformation up the value chain.
The June G7 meeting couldn’t be happening at a more consequential moment, both for the planet, and for Canada and its economic and political destiny.
Europe and Canada represent serious obstacles to the vision the American and Russian leaders share of a racially and religiously homogenous northern hemisphere.
In the future post-Justin Trudeau era, Canada will need someone who understands what the masses feel economically, who recognizes we’re at a perilous moment in our planet’s evolution.
The existential threat of the climate emergency got short shrift during the American presidential race.
Unlike the threats of past millennia, planetary warming could ultimately lead to the destruction of what sustains human civilization and life as we know it.
Canada would be pulled into a vortex of an America-first agenda driven by unilateralism and narrow short-term self-interest.
Mark Carney is advocating for the reinvention of liberal democracy that strengthens social cohesion, while also protecting the planet and its life-sustaining natural environment.
It may be instructive to look at what Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre’s predecessor Stephen Harper has said to glean what Poilievre’s inherited ‘populist conservatism’ would seek to build through economic and social policy.
