Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s vanity project of pursuing a temporary seat on the United Nations Security Council is a poor excuse for a foreign policy. With China and other pariah nations causing mischief around the world, notably China’s crackdown in Hong Kong, international relations have never been more important, or more badly mishandled in Canada.
I interviewed Tory candidate Erin O’Toole last week because I like his views and because he is the only credible leader who hasn’t had a career in Ottawa’s parochial political bubble. He served for years as a pilot and officer in the Canadian military, then became a corporate lawyer on Bay Street before running for Parliament. I respect such real-world credentials in public life and sought his views on global challenges, among other issues.
“The most important job of the Canadian prime minister is to make sure we have strong relations with the U.S. and influence them in a way that’s in our interest and their national interest, too,” said O’Toole.
The international order has been broken, he continued, and the only counterbalance to the corruption and incompetence of international institutions, notably the United Nations, is to strengthen the Five Eyes alliance, an intelligence partnership between the United States, the United Kingdom, Canada, Australia and New Zealand.
“A prime minister of Canada should work with the Five Eyes to correct the international order, rid the bad actors and stop the gaming of United Nations agencies. The U.S. and Canada must lead these efforts,” he said. “There is a remarkable opportunity for this alliance to reassert and reorder the global trading system, too, but right now Trudeau is considered a joke.”
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