Canada Should Pull Out of Beijing’s Infrastructure Bank

Canada Should Pull Out of Beijing’s Infrastructure Bank
Chinese leader Xi Jinping applauds after unveiling a sculpture during the opening ceremony of the Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank in Beijing on Jan. 16, 2016. AP Photo/Mark Schiefelbein, Pool
Shane Miller
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Commentary

Due to a paralyzing lack of fecundity in Canadian foreign policy thinking, there seems to be among certain policymakers and commentators a tendency to make multilateralism into something like a religion. No matter the merits of an institution, if it is “multilateral” it is virtuous, and Canada must be uncritically involved in it.