February 13, 2025
Stop pretending Canada cares about a meaningful role on the world stage
Canada doesn’t really have much of a foreign policy; and most of what we do have is entirely for domestic consumption.
Canada doesn’t really have much of a foreign policy; and most of what we do have is entirely for domestic consumption.

It’s not surprising that various Liberal party types are bummed out over their failure to score a UN Security Council seat for Canada, despite four years of trying. It is surprising that Liberal MP Omar Alghabra doesn’t know how to use Twitter’s search function. If the MP for a Toronto-area riding was a bit more skilled with social media, he’d have known not to have tweeted on Thursday afternoon that it was “quite distasteful how the Conservatives and (Andrew Scheer) are gloating that Canada didn’t win a Security Council seat. It used to be that Canadian partisanship stopped at the border. Bring back decency, please.”

If it’s true that partisanship used to stop at the border, that long-ago era must predate 2010/11, which is when various Liberal Twitter accounts, including the party’s main handle, as well as those of Justin Trudeau and, ahem, Omar Alghabra, pounced on the Conservatives’ failure to … obtain a security council seat.

“Watch Harper try to blame the Liberals for his failures at diplomacy and development. And watch them try to spin that the UN is unimportant,” said Trudeau, on Oct. 12, 2010. “Harper failure: Obama publicly endorsed India as (permanent UN Security Council) member but remained silent when (Canada) was seeking a (temporary) term?,” tweeted Alghabra on Nov. 9, 2010. “Harper is the first and only Canadian Prime Minister who failed to get a seat at the UN Security Council,” noted the Liberal party’s Twitter account, on April 13, 2011. There are others, but the point is made: if partisanship stops at the border, someone should tell the Liberals. They’ll be shocked.

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