A robust statement of continuity in Canadian policy. “It’s important for the country to understand that he’s a strong supporter of Ukraine,” Freeland told me in a telephone interview about her boss. There are legitimate differences of opinion on how you operationalize a policy” that Freeland and Dion “both agree with.” Carrots and sticks. Pierre Trudeau delivered his first speech on his multiculturalism policy outside the House of Commons, in 1971, to the Ukrainian Canadian Congress in Winnipeg. That was a hawkish speech Justin Trudeau delivered on Ukraine to a Ukrainian-Canadian audience last week in Toronto.

Source: thestar June 29, 2016 12:03 UTC