Trudeau will visit Ethiopia, Senegal and Germany over the course of the next week, with the primary goal of securing support for Canada’s bid to win a seat on the United Nations Security Council. The goal of sitting on the security council is laudable. Making a security council bid a partisan affair is a relatively recent phenomenon. This bid for the security council seat was not in the Liberal Party’s 2015 election platform or in the mandate letter of Trudeau’s first foreign affairs minster, Stéphane Dion. Yet the result remains in the balance and failure will bring uncomfortable comparisons between the prime minister and his father, who was in power when Canada held a non-permanent council seat in 1977.

Source: National Post February 05, 2020 23:37 UTC