The first thing was 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.
She is one lying, pathetic. Give your head a shake freakland!!
One of the first times I agree...
Woke comunist journalism only lies to Canadians TrussMustGo
Except she is in lock step with him, there is no him/her, only them.
I hope so
Trudeau and her should be taking advantage of college enrollment for there new jobs they are going to need.
No, he relates to them.
Trudeau *is* a dictator. Or, at minimum, an aspirational one.
I agree with her!
On world stage, winner is winner. Light weight countries do not matter much, just reality.