Five things about Canada’s rollout of a new foreign policy this week
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OTTAWA — The Liberal government has spent the last week rolling out a new foreign policy. Foreign Affairs Minister Chrystia Freeland gave an overarching speech that positioned Canada as a champion of the global multilateral order that is under attack from the Donald Trump administration in the U.S., and Defence Minister Harjit Sajjan spoke to increasing defence spending over two decades.
On Friday, International Development Minister Marie-Claude Bibeau outlined the country’s future direction on foreign aid.
Here are five things about Canada’s busy week in foreign affairs:
1. Freeland says Canada will make its diversity an example to the world and that it will stand up for the persecuted and the downtrodden. She says Canada will “set a standard” for how women, gays and lesbians, transgendered people, racial, ethnic, cultural, linguistic and religious minorities and indigenous people are treated in the world.
