An interesting opinion piece in today’s G and M (if not a bit strident):
President Barack Obama arrives on the world stage armed with new approaches to global diplomacy, the environmentand, it appears, trade. Never has Canada been less equipped to respond to the American challenge.
A succession of minority governments has left our foreign policy in a shambles and our foreign service paralyzed. On trade, on global warming, on peace in the Middle East, on the emerging Third World powers — on anything that matters, Canada has nothing to say. When we do speak, nobody listens.