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Trudeau’s vain, pointless obsession with getting a U.N. Security Council seat
This month the Trudeau government was denounced in a blistering open letter signed by a number of left-wing activists and self-proclaimed champions of the developing world who are vowing to distribute to the U.N. General Assembly. In it, Ottawa is condemned for (among other things) being a member of NATO and endorsing anti-government forces in Venezuela — positions the prime minister refuses to apologize for, because he considers them extensions of the same Canadian virtues he so constantly celebrates.
Therein lies the paradox of the entire project. Joining the Security Council is a crusade of patriotic self-importance, yet it will only be successful to the degree Trudeau is able to conceal or subordinate the ways Canada is, in fact, a uniquely principled country.
National exceptionalism cannot be built from timid conformity. Four years of distracted foreign policy is the price Canada is paying to teach its vain prime minister this obvious lesson.