The Liberals won the election last October, right? I have to keep confirming this when I see how the Liberals continue to criticize the previous government as if they’re still in an election as Foreign Affairs Minister Stéphane Dion did again recently in a speech.
Rather than simply laying out Canada’s new foreign policy in his speech, he kept referring back to the Harper government’s foreign policy even indulging in some revisionist history while doing so.
Dion seems to have a lot invested in convincing everyone that the previous government were too isolationist in some ways and yet the facts don’t support this view.
I guess maybe Liberals didn’t appreciate the way Harper responded to Vladimir Putin’s aggressive actions in Ukraine. For the record, many Canadians felt it was both tactically and morally the right thing to do.
But, under Dion and the Liberal’s, we’re moving back towards a troubling moral relativism or the “honest broker” style preferred by Liberals.
Dion doesn’t like that term so he’s come up with a new one to describe how they view their foreign policy: “responsible conviction”.
That doesn’t seem quite right though because if you can’t tell dictators and kleptocrats that they’re wrong, then you have no convictions.
FlagSevering ties with Russia had ‘no positive consequences,’ Stephane Dion says
So far we cut and run in Syria, turn our backs on Israel, and now crap on the Ukraine by playing footsie with the Russian aggressor. The expression “Canada is back” was likely printed in error as all the world is witnessing that under the Boy Blunder, Canada is actually backward! Pity !"
Anybody who would name his dog Kyoto is definitely demented.
The Liberal Party of Canada no longer has any convictions aside from maintaining power at all costs. Lying, cheating, stealing are all part of the moral fabric of that party now.
Andrew said it best, though, “Good choice Canada – bunch of retards.”
The global economy is tanking into the shitter nicely – and the libranos can’t tax their way out of it, nor cut their way out of it.
Camp counselor in charge!!! Good choice Canada – bunch of retards.
Here is proof positive that the Liberals have nothing new to offer Canadians just more of the same only worse. They are just picking up where the last gang of defeated Liberals left off. The party is morally and cerebrally bankrupt.
I don’t get “responsible” out of this and the only commitment is non commitment for do-nothing foreign policy – except to show for all the international soirees, dive on the buffet then do selfies with the grown ups
Just after Israel wacked Sadam Hussein’s nuclear project the Russians staged a readiness exercise to test the preparedness of nuclear plants. Ther was a screw up..Chernobyl. That deprived Ukraine of territory usually not included in the other Russian confiscations. I think it fitting that the contaminated rubble and soil be used to form a berm along the Ukraine and Russian frontier.