ICYMI - Terry Glavin: Trudeau China policy finally brings Canada back to Stephen Harper's view in 2006
It’s true enough that the ministerial statements and the documents setting out the strategy, which envisions an outlay of $2.3 billion over several years, depict China as an increasingly “disruptive” power, and notice China in other ways. But they all sound like “the Earth is round” or “night follows day.”The NP Comment newsletter from columnist Colby Cosh and NP Comment editors tackles the important topics with boldness, verve and wit. Get NP Platformed delivered to your inbox weekdays by 4 p.
The kidnapping threw the Trudeau government for a loop. For a full year, the preferred policy option was to live in denial and bumble through the world-stage embarrassment of having to fire our China ambassador, the Chrétien-era cabinet minister John McCallum, for having taken China’s side in the prickly matter of Canada’s detention of Huawei Chief Financial Officer Meng Wanzhou.
A few months after his mention of a China framework, Champagne said the thing would have “cornerstones,” too, and “very clear rules and standards that will frame that relationship; Canadian interests to frame that relationship; and values and principles including human rights.”Article content
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