It’s quite true, as Foreign Affairs Minister Stéphane Dion asserted on Tuesday, that you don’t have to be a Liberal to be mostly amenable to the mandate Prime Minister Justin Trudeau has set out for Canada’s engagement with the world.
The advancement of Canada’s economic and security interests, a leading role on climate change, support for the United Nations’ peace and post-conflict reconstruction efforts, the championing of accountable government and pluralism, and respect for diversity, human rights, women and refugees – it’s all quite unobjectionable. But what happened next, in Dion’s meticulously prepared address at the University of Ottawa, was …read more
Source: Ottawa Citizen
