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Trudeau’s test: Taking stock of a foreign policy legacy

Today, Canada heads to the polls for its third election in six years. Prime Minister Justin Trudeau has come under considerable criticism for his decision to call an early election as the Delta variant surges across the country. He has gambled that his handling of the pandemic will allow him to win
By Edward McCann
20 Sep 21
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Trouble for Trudeau

Canada is off to the polls again, less than two years after the last election. When Prime Minister Justin Trudeau called a surprise snap election in August it was with the hope of converting his current Liberal Party minority government into a majority one, reaping the rewards of incumbency during
By Grant Wyeth
06 Sep 21
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A resounding “oui” for an emoji in Canada

Last week, Quebec’s separatist party, the Parti Québécois, phoned in a demand – figuratively, at least. The party introduced a motion into the provincial legislature demanding that the Silicon Valley–based Unicode Consortium add a Quebec flag emoji to its platform. Despite the Parti Qu
By Grant Wyeth
02 Jun 21
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India, Canada and the new vaccine politics

The threat of wealthy countries hoarding vaccines for themselves and denying access to smaller and poorer countries has become the world’s primary cooperative concern. Yet how vaccine nationalism also attaches itself to pre-existing relationships between countries may become another part of this
By Grant Wyeth
16 Feb 21
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Five Eyes: Blurring the lines between intelligence and policy

The public aura around the decades-old “Five Eyes” intelligence sharing partnership between Australia, the US, UK, Canada, New Zealand has expanded rapidly since the name was first publicly acknowledged. In 2014, an Australian prime minister publicly referred to the “Five Eyes” for the
By Ben Scott
27 Jul 20
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Canada won’t fall for China’s hostage diplomacy

It has been more than a year and a half since the Chinese government arbitrarily apprehended two Canadian citizens, Michael Kovrig and Michael Spavor. Their arrests have been widely interpreted as retaliation for Canada detaining Meng Wanzhou, a Huawei executive and the daughter of the company’s
By Grant Wyeth
01 Jul 20
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Woe Canada, a second consecutive UN rebuff

Last week, the United Nations elected five countries to the Security Council for two years from 1 January 2021: India from the Asia group, elected by an impressive 184 votes of 193 cast; Mexico from Latin America and the Caribbean; Kenya from Africa; and Ireland and Norway from the West Europe and
By Ramesh Thakur
23 Jun 20
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Ironclad - Forging a new future for America's alliances: book chapter

In a new book edited by Dr. Michael J. Green of Center for Strategic & International Studies in Washington D.C., the final chapter by Alex Oliver looks at international public opinion towards the US' system of alliances and finds that attitudes have been surprisingly
By Alex Oliver
18 Oct 19
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Canada’s Indo-Pacific pivot

Canada’s Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, ahead of an election next month, is seeking to fend off an immediate and growing scandal around past episodes of wearing “brownface”. But whatever Trudeau’s fate at the polls, his term in office has come as Canada wrestles with longer-term shifts
By Grant Wyeth
23 Sep 19
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Canada and Huawei: letting politics slip in

Canada has decided not to join Australia and the United States in barring Huawei Technologies Ltd of Shenzen from participating in the development of Canada’s 5G mobile networks. Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau argued that his government’s decision on Huawei is based “on evidence and
By Kim Richard Nossal
22 Oct 18
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Saudis try block Canada’s feminist foreign policy

Twitter has come to play a central role in how nations conduct their affairs, with the social media site an active component of policy projection, direct communication, and diplomacy. While analysts look to distinguish between actual policy that is created by the White House and the “
By Grant Wyeth
08 Aug 18
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