A veritable link dump of Justin's vanity project and how it failed spectacularly:
(Sidebar: yes, about that - "After four years of effort and huge sums of money and energy, Canada decisively lost its bid for a UN Security Council seat on Wednesday. It placed third, behind winners Ireland and Norway, and such a distant third that it was all over on the first ballot. ... Canada remained engaged in the world during Harper’s tenure and continued to hold a high international reputation in surveys. The notion that the Harper years were some dark age in Canadian foreign policy might be true for a small section of Canada’s foreign policy establishment and no doubt is for Liberals, but no one else seemed to have noticed much. “Canada’s back” really meant, for Liberals, that they were back — back at the helm of the country they often seem to think it’s their birthright to rule. Getting the seat on the council would have been the symbolic confirmation of Canada’s (their) “return.” )
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(Sidebar: that must burn.)
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This opinion rests on the assumption that Justin even tried applying post-Second World War policy to a post-Cold War world. Justin rested on the laurels of Canada's vaunted past and hoped that now that the heavy lifting was done, he could, as he does with his trust-fund, slide away and reap the benefits. Those times are well-past. Only current triumphs and blunders are remembered now. There are several bridges that Justin himself burned (in India, for example). Even if he could rely on duplicitous tyrants for support, what made him think that he could count on others countries where his behaviour and lack of diplomatic success was embarrassing to say the least?
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Damn right!
In the world's colours, we are beige.
Even if Justin did take the job seriously (he hasn't taken the job of of prime minister seriously unlike a certain guy he blames all the time did) and did use his vote pragmatically, the tyrants and thieves that occupy the UN would simply over-rule him.
Let one ponder if Justin actually over-estimates or not Canada's importance on the world stage, or if he even cares. Such questions would over-tax his hubristic gray matter.
At any rate, this costly waste of time is Justin's embarrassment to wear.
When does everyone get their money back?
No one likes a douchebag, Jag:
Jag didn't get his way and became a spoiled baby about it.
Good riddance to him.
Canada’s late start in campaigning for the United Nations Security Council led to its defeat to Norway and Ireland, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said Thursday.
(Sidebar: yes, about that - "After four years of effort and huge sums of money and energy, Canada decisively lost its bid for a UN Security Council seat on Wednesday. It placed third, behind winners Ireland and Norway, and such a distant third that it was all over on the first ballot. ... Canada remained engaged in the world during Harper’s tenure and continued to hold a high international reputation in surveys. The notion that the Harper years were some dark age in Canadian foreign policy might be true for a small section of Canada’s foreign policy establishment and no doubt is for Liberals, but no one else seemed to have noticed much. “Canada’s back” really meant, for Liberals, that they were back — back at the helm of the country they often seem to think it’s their birthright to rule. Getting the seat on the council would have been the symbolic confirmation of Canada’s (their) “return.” )
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Canada received just 108 votes, even fewer than the 114 first round ballot votes that it received in 2010 when the former Conservative government ran and failed to win the same seat.
(Sidebar: that must burn.)
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Indeed, Canada’s foreign policy thinking is worn-out, overly content to hold on to our past glory, or to obsess about being a world leader in something … anything. This obsession with international leadership has caused us to trade thinking clearly about our place in the world and our national interests for hubristic self-aggrandizement. The world is moving on from the post-Second World War international order and so must Canada. An effective foreign policy is not measured by how many likes you receive, but by how well it protects and extends the interests of Canada and its citizens.
This opinion rests on the assumption that Justin even tried applying post-Second World War policy to a post-Cold War world. Justin rested on the laurels of Canada's vaunted past and hoped that now that the heavy lifting was done, he could, as he does with his trust-fund, slide away and reap the benefits. Those times are well-past. Only current triumphs and blunders are remembered now. There are several bridges that Justin himself burned (in India, for example). Even if he could rely on duplicitous tyrants for support, what made him think that he could count on others countries where his behaviour and lack of diplomatic success was embarrassing to say the least?
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All those little
banana republics took your billions in foreign aid bribes -- and lied to
your face about supporting you.
It's almost
like they think you're a naive lightweight, like some rich
tourist who overpays for a trinket at the bazaar. https://t.co/9XIOwPLKbJ
—
Ezra Levant 🍁 (@ezralevant) June
18, 2020
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At the start, Trudeau was criticized for not cancelling an $11.3-billion Saudi arms deal approved by the Harper government.
In last year’s election, Trudeau was reduced from a majority to a minority government and was revealed during the campaign to have repeatedly posed in racist blackface, including as a 29-year-old teacher.
Trudeau apologized, but it was a jarring international image of someone who had boasted of his commitment to racial equality.
Trudeau’s February goodwill tour of Europe and the Caribbean this year to drum up support for his Security Council bid, was cut short because of national railway blockades in Canada by protesters demonstrating against pipelines.
His belated return to Canada to deal with that crisis prompted critics to accuse him of caring more about winning a Security Council seat to satisfy his ego, than the economic damage caused by the blockades.
As that crisis was winding down, Canada was hit by the COVID-19 pandemic, confining Trudeau to Ottawa.
Despite Trudeau’s early promises of greater involvement with the UN, Norway and Ireland had more UN peacemakers than Canada, with both spending a larger share of their annual budgets on foreign aid.
In the final days leading up to the UN vote, Trudeau — through Canada’s UN Ambassador Marc-André Blanchard and other officials — unsuccessfully lobbied UN ambassadors to counteract two international campaigns urging UN members not to vote for Canada, arguing it is was too pro-Israel and had not done enough to fight climate change.
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The campaign for this seat would say that Canada’s voice is now silent on human rights abuses in countries we wanted votes from and that we now value cozying up to some of the worst abusers in the world. We’ve all seen the embarrassing way that the Trudeau government has dealt with China.
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The United Nations General Assembly has strongly rejected Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s worldview and his narcissistic personal brand of diplomacy.
For Canada’s candidacy to not even make it to the second round of balloting against two minnows with sharks’ teeth — Norway and Ireland — is a sharp lesson to all those Canadians who travel abroad and confuse polite smiles for great affection and respect for our country.
Clearly, we are neither so great nor as loved as we or our prime minister think we are.
Damn right!
In the world's colours, we are beige.
Even if Justin did take the job seriously (he hasn't taken the job of of prime minister seriously unlike a certain guy he blames all the time did) and did use his vote pragmatically, the tyrants and thieves that occupy the UN would simply over-rule him.
Let one ponder if Justin actually over-estimates or not Canada's importance on the world stage, or if he even cares. Such questions would over-tax his hubristic gray matter.
At any rate, this costly waste of time is Justin's embarrassment to wear.
When does everyone get their money back?
No one likes a douchebag, Jag:
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau called the Bloc Québécois' actions “disappointing” and “problematic,” a day after NDP Leader Jagmeet Singh was asked to leave the House of Commons for calling an MP “racist.”
(Sidebar: burn some more bridges, Justin.)
Singh directed the words at Bloc member Alain Therrien on Wednesday, after the House of Commons failed to receive unanimous consent to pass a New Democrat motion on Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP) discrimination.
Jag didn't get his way and became a spoiled baby about it.
Good riddance to him.
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