The first thing is that what Freeland had to say could be easily read as a renunciation and a rebuke of everything Prime Minister Justin Trudeau has stood for on the “world stage,” ever since he was first elected in 2015. The second thing is that there’s nothing about her remedies for what ails the broken “rules-based international order” that would be held as especially radical these days in Brussels or Tokyo or Washington or Warsaw.
Not even the kidnapping of Michael Kovrig and Michael Spavor was sufficient to shake the Liberal foreign policy establishment out of its starry-eyed devotion to deeper integration with Xi Jinping’s China. After five years of waiting for a China policy “reset,” we appear to be back to square one, with Foreign Affairs Minister Mélanie Joly’s determination to rekindle Beijing’s affections.
It’s not that Canada has found itself uniquely vulnerable to Beijing’s blackmail. Canada-China trade remains about five per cent of Canada’s offshore trade accounts, and by the time SARS-CoV-2 emerged from the Chinese city of Wuhan, China was the world’s major producer of ventilators and respirators, and half the world’s medical masks were sourced from Chinese factories. The U.S.
No he won't because Trudeau is a dictator.
Old picture, what are you up to Vancouver Sun?
Then stop doing business altogether 😆
dictators u say...
When Trudeau is the biggest dictator in the Western world? WEF puppets are the laughingstock of the world stage...
You honestly think that a cabinet minister would be talking like that without that being a clear decision the government had previously made. There is no way she is out on her own on that issue.
What dribble!! You are consistent in your unfounded attacks on the PM. Did the PM meet with the convoy? No - because he has said for a long time - Canada does not negotiate with terrorists. Grow a pair.