CMV: Trudeau’s foreign policy failures are the worst in Canadian history.
After a decade of his rule, Canada no has hostile relations with almost every major economy and trade partner. China, US, India, France, and much more.
Be it souring relations with Saudi Arabia so much so that they closed their embassies and banned flights to Canada.
Since 2018, bilateral relations have gradually soured since a high-profile diplomatic spat began over the Canadian government's public condemnation of the Saudi government's human rights abuses. Canada had called for the immediate release of Saudi activist Raif Badawi and his sister Samar Badawi on 5 August 2018 after they were arrested by Saudi authorities on varying charges. In response, the Canadian government was accused of interfering in Saudi Arabia's internal affairs; the Canadian ambassador in Riyadh was declared persona non grata and expelled from the country, having been given 48 hours to leave. The Saudi ambassador in Ottawa was also recalled,[4] and the Saudi government suspended all new trade (excluding oil sales) with Canada, terminated all flights and services of Saudia to Toronto, and cancelled the scholarships of thousands of Saudi students in Canada.[5]
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canada%E2%80%93Saudi_Arabia_relations
Or the famous conflict with India. Whether Canada should be harbouring terrorists or people declared to be terrorists by other countries is a different argument, but the way things were handled are seriously stupid. US is dealing with a similar thing and you never hear about it much, the issue was handled properly. All the more embarrassing was this
‘No definitive connection’ between Nijjar killing and India, reveals Canadian report
It’s been a couple years, this should not be our stand, definite proof should have been presented just like Turkey did for Saudi. Turkey presented clear video and photos of the assassins of Kashogi in 2018, we didn’t.
Issue with Trump is much more well known. Though you can say that Trump is not a guy who negotiates in good faith. It’s the job of a country’s leader to handle such people.
Issue with China and the two Michael’s, one of whom is know admitting he was “spying” is further embarrassing.
We ended up paying one of the Michaels 7 million bucks to settle this. Simply stupid.
Now many liberals like to point out that these are “authoritarian” regimes. But fact is the world is full of different people and different government styles. You cannot do business or trade by being idealistic and preachy. The idea that least of all Canada with a much smaller population can go around being the leader of democracy standing up to authoritarian regimes is far fetched and frankly counterproductive to Canadian interests.