TOO FLIMSY, UNFOCUSED, AD HOC & CHAOTIC

   Prime Minister Justin Trudeau blamed Canada’s failed attempt to gain a UN Security Council seat on entering the race late — a decision he deliberately made in 2016 after other countries’ campaigns were well underway.
  “It was the prime minister’s decision to enter late,” said Adam Chapnick, a professor at the Royal Military College and author of a book on Canada and the UN. “He has identified the exact reason that Canada did not perform as well as the government wanted it to.”
   But one former Canadian ambassador blamed the failure on the Trudeau government’s superficial foreign policy that hamstrung its diplomats.
  “It shows that through the Trudeau years Canada’s superficiality and insouciance in foreign affairs got through to the rest of the world, and the world decided we were too flimsy, unfocused, ad hoc and chaotic to merit support,” said Stephen Lewis, a lifelong New Democrat who was appointed by then Progressive Conservative prime minister Brian Mulroney to be his UN ambassador in the 1980s.