foreign policy

Petty, puritanical, and obtuse, Canada’s foreign policy is morally wrong

In 2010, Stephen Harper took the stage at the Inter-parliamentary Coalition for Combating Antisemitism conference in Ottawa and pledged, in no uncertain terms, Canada’s unshakable support for Israel: “the easy thing to do is simply to just  go along [. . .] with this anti-Israel rhetoric. [. . .] There are, after all, a lot more votes [. . .] in being anti-Israeli than taking a stand. But, as long as I am Prime Minister, [. . .] Canada will take that stand, whatever the cost.” Consistent with the self-aggrandizing nature of his comments, Harper’s foreign and domestic policies have…

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