While fresh winds of change are blowing through Canada’s international policy, those winds aren’t likely to lead to any thaw in relations with Russia, says a Canadian expert on foreign policy and military intervention.
Stephen M. Saideman, the Paterson Chair in International Affairs at Carleton University in Ottawa, says, unlike with other foreign affairs files that the Liberal government of Prime Minister Justin Trudeau inherited from his Conservative predecessor Stephen Harper, he expects little change in Canada’s posture towards Putin’s Russia.
“I don’t think this government came in thinking that the previous government had really messed things up, except for maybe to …read more
Source: Radio Canada International