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Canadian Foreign Policy Set to Change: Liberalism Versus Harperism

The foreign policy successfully followed by Ottawa for almost a decade will shortly be door nail dead.
Canadian Foreign Policy Set to Change: Liberalism Versus Harperism
Canadian Liberal Party leader Justin Trudeau at a press conference in Ottawa on Oct. 20, 2015, after winning the general elections. Nicholas Kamm/AFP/Getty Images
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The times they are a changing.

The foreign policy successfully followed by Ottawa for almost a decade will shortly be door nail dead. Designed and implemented by Prime Minister Stephen Harper, Canadian foreign policy has been consciously more assertive and direct. Ottawa hasn’t hesitated to “call a spade, a spade” when addressing foreign policy challenges around the world.

Such will not be the case under Trudeau-Liberal direction.

The existential Liberal concerns are domestic. The Ministry of Foreign Affairs doubtless anticipates this regime change with pleasure.