Now, in pursuit of a UN Security Council seat and perhaps the international acclaim that has been noticeably absent of late, the prime minister has made a major change of policy, without much in the way of explanation.
And at a particularly strange moment in history. Much of the world is moving past long-held positions on the conflict. In Iran, protestors decry their regime’s continued support of anti-Israel terrorist proxies. Across the region, Arab countries are drawing closer to Israel out of shared security concerns. The U.S. has recognized Jerusalem as the Israeli capital, and chaos and anger notably failed to materialize.
It seems an odd moment for Canada to break with a policy supported by Liberal and Conservative prime ministers and our major ally. It’s also a bad decision on its own merits. If this is what foreign policy under a Trudeau minority government is going to look like, it’s going to be a bleak few years.
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