When Justin Trudeau and his ministry was sworn in on 4 November 2015, considerable attention was paid to the gender equality of his first cabinet: fifteen men and fifteen women, the first gender-equal cabinet in Canada’s history. Trudeau’s pithy response when asked why he had taken this step — “because it’s 2015” — drew equal … More The Organic Nature of Trudeau’s Feminist Foreign Policy
On 1 December, as President Donald J. Trump and President Xi Jinping were meeting in Buenos Aires to discuss a mounting trade dispute between the United States and China, Sabrina Meng Wanzhou, deputy chairwoman and chief financial officer of Huawei Technologies Co. Ltd. of Shenzen, was on her way from Hong Kong to Mexico City. … More Playing the Hostage Card: Meng Wanzhou & Michael Kovrig
President Donald J. Trump has radically disrupted America’s place and role in global politics, accurately fulfilling the compelling characterization by The Economist of the 45th president as an “insurgent” inspired by a “demolition theory of foreign policy.” Some of the disruption has come from Trump’s bizarre and never-before-seen personal diplomacy. After all, we just don’t … More The Trump Cession and the Dismantling of American Hegemony
Canada has decided not to join Australia and the United States in barring Huawei Technologies Ltd of Shenzen from participating in the development of Canada’s 5G mobile networks. Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau argued that his government’s decision on Huawei is based “on evidence and data”, and in particular on recommendations from the Communications Security … More Canada and Huawei: Letting Politics Slip In
As the details of the new North American trade agreement roll out, we should not be surprised that at the end of the day, it all came down to the name. For we already knew that US President Donald Trump knows nothing about the actual details of America’s trade agreements, and cares even less. We … More The Name Game: Out with NAFTA, in with the USMCA
On August 21, President Donald J. Trump did something unusual: he reversed himself. For years he was of the view, as he put it in a tweet in November 2013, that “we have wasted an enormous amount of blood and treasure in Afghanistan…Let’s get out!” But this summer, he decided not only to keep the … More Canada and the “War without End” in Afghanistan
We shouldn’t be surprised that Canada is going to buy an interim fleet of 18 Boeing Super Hornets. The Liberal government has been desperately looking for a way out of the mess Justin Trudeau created when he decided it would be a good idea to play politics by promising in the middle of the election … More Super Hornets: How Trudeau Played Politics with Defence Procurement
Kim Richard Nossal 