As an exercise in eloquently sugarcoating the facts of the shattered world order and Canada’s precarious place within the ruins, Foreign Affairs Minister Chrystia Freeland’s speech in the House of Commons on Tuesday was a masterwork of tact and sobriety. The great unravelling began with the 2007-2008 meltdown of the global neoliberal order, and with the election of Barack Obama. It was Obama who chose to “shrug off the burden of world leadership,” and he was honest about it. It was triggered in defence of the United States. “To rely solely on the U.S. security umbrella would make us a client state,” Freeland said, and those days are gone.

Source: National Post June 07, 2017 18:21 UTC