Imagine that a community of nearly two million Canadians was being targeted by a foreign government — that these Canadians were being gaslighted, harassed, threatened and silenced. Shouldn’t the Canadian government help this community and protect it from intimidation? Shouldn’t it do more than simply court it for votes at election time? The answer...
READ MORE
The subtext is: if the Liberals can’t manage the foreign affairs file, how can we trust them to manage anything?...
READ MORE
“Living next to you is in some ways like sleeping with an elephant,” Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau told the Press Club in Washington, D.C. on March 25, 1969. “No matter how friendly and even-tempered is the beast, if I can call it that, one is affected by every twitch and grunt. Even a friendly...
READ MORE
“A Canadian is a Canadian is a Canadian,” said Justin Trudeau on September 28, 2015. “And you devalue the citizenship of every Canadian in this place and in this country when you break down and make it conditional for anybody.” The occasion was the Munk Debate on Foreign Policy, the penultimate leaders’ exchange of...
READ MORE