Conrad Black: Making Canada matter in the world
“We’ve got a diaspora-driven foreign policy,” Christopher Westdal, former Canadian ambassador to both Ukraine and Russia, told The Globe and Mail last month. “It might work at the polls, but it doesn’t do much good in the world.”
The Prime Minister and Foreign Minister John Baird’s strenuous support of Israel, and now Ukraine, are alleged to have demolished Canada’s long-pursued status as a moderate, median country in international organizations in Middle Eastern issues.
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