While Freeland called the United States the “indispensable nation” in the postwar world order, those times may be coming to an end. In what was billed as a major speech on Canada’s foreign policy priorities, Freeland sketched out the challenges the country faces today and the role it aspires to play. In laying out Canada’s foreign policy priorities, Freeland said that Ottawa will “robustly” support the rules-based international order and its institutions. She said Canada has a “huge interest in an international order based on rules. But the global order is changing in unprecedented ways, she said, with the emergence of the global south and Asia, notably China.

Source: thestar June 06, 2017 15:00 UTC