Try refreshing your browser, or Rex Murphy: Putin is surely trembling over Canada's 'convening' power Back to video When the Minister of Foreign Affairs, in lieu of any increased Canadian presence in the alarming crisis in Ukraine, makes a boast of Canada’s “convening power,” it is to wonder, perhaps even mandatory to ask, is Mélanie Joly serious? As bombs rain down, cities are pulverized, all canons of international behaviour outraged, we brag of a power to “convene?” Our “convening” power? The Convening Power has spoken.”Advertisement 3 Story continues below This advertisement has not loaded yet, but your article continues below. Article content “Unsurpassed convening power!” We have not jets worth sending. We have unsurpassed convening power!

Source: National Post March 19, 2022 02:11 UTC