There will be a further price to be paid for votes of support – and it will likely dwarf the $2 million the government has already spent directly on the bid
Justin Trudeau takes off for Ethiopia, the land of origins, this week. He is not going in search of the birthplace of humanity, the provenance of the first wild coffee plant or the source of the Nile, the world’s longest river.
“We would be sitting, literally, beside the Chinese every day for two years, which opens up opportunities for conversations you would not normally have,” said Chapnick, referring to the current problems Canada is facing freeing detainees, Michael Kovrig and Michael Spavor. Canada already sends nearly $2 billion in overseas aid to a host of countries in Africa, including the four listed above.
This bid for the security council seat was not in the Liberal Party’s 2015 election platform or in the mandate letter of Trudeau’s first foreign affairs minster, Stéphane Dion. But it was decided for domestic political reasons that nothing would shout out that Canada was “back” on the world stage like a seat at the UN’s top table.
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