The Liberals’ lack of ardour for working with such treaty partners as NATO or NORAD precedes the current prime minister’s term by many years. But with peacekeeping now dominating the conversation in government circles in Ottawa, there is less enthusiasm for those alliances than ever. It has been repeated like a mantra recently that China is now Canada’s second-most important trading partner, after the United States. He preferred to co-operate with the Five Eyes (the intelligence-sharing alliance with Britain, New Zealand, Australia and the U.S.). Until now, the Trudeau government’s warm embrace of the UN has not produced benefits or damaging consequences.

Source: National Post October 01, 2016 02:26 UTC