Prime Minister Trudeau has eroded Canada’s place in the world

After boastfully declaring that he would enhance Canada’s place on the international scene, Prime Minister Trudeau failed in his bid to secure a United Nations Security Council seat. 

Canada’s place in the word has been effectively eroded in his watch. 

Foreign policy matters, so Trudeau is right in drawing attention to it in his mandate. Canada has had a record of being a good global citizen and offered the peaceful model of a tolerant cosmopolitan society with an independent hybrid legal system inside a bilingual framework. This was an admirably attractive image to countries around the world, and it opened avenues of influence to those mired in various forms of tyranny. In addition, the lack of an imperious past gave Canada an advantage over countries like France and Britain, Russia or the United States.

But under Trudeau, Foreign Affairs in Canada became a wing of the virtue-signalling mill, more interested in projecting progressiveness than in achieving policy ends. Ironically for an…