The Conservative government has a strange way with public pronouncements on security issues. When it comes to the gravest of international crises, the government is prone to bold, headline-grabbing statements, whether on Putin’s role in stoking the flames in the Ukraine, or the threat posed by Iran, or the crisis in Syria/Iraq, or who is right and who is wrong in the eternal Palestinian conflict. Critics are quick to point out that some of this megaphone diplomacy seems divorced from actual Canadian action, but no one doubts the government’s tendency to reach for the megaphone on the global stage.
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Source: Ottawa Citizen
