Diane Francis: Prime Minister Justin Trudeau is a weak, naive leader who has bungled most foreign policy files. He has neglected the military, damaged the energy and resource sectors, and concentrated on converting the country into a Polar Bear park and bribing dictatorships in Africa to get a useless seat on the United Nations Security Council.
Instead, Canada should have — as Australia has done — outed China’s behaviour as equivalent to acts of war, then joined the trade gang-up with the United States. It should have more fully joined forces with the military-intelligence alliance Five Eyes, which include Canada, the U.S., Britain, New Zealand and Australia. All these others have all bluntly lambasted China for its Hong Kong and other abuses, and banned Huawei as a security and economic threat.
But not Canada. Trudeau listens to Canada’s ruling elite — China whisperers from the Liberal party, banks, insurance companies, and Quebec business community — who do business there and counsel appeasement.
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