Ben Rowswell on The Agenda: Time for Canada to Scrap Pearsonian Diplomacy?
As the rules-based international order faces unprecedented threats, what’s Canada – a country that has thrived in traditional multilateralism – to do? Is it time to for Canada to abandon its historical “Pearsonian approach” to world diplomacy and focus more on power? To provide context, Ben Rowswell, president of the Canadian International Council joined Jennifer Welsh, director of the Centre for International Peace and Security Studies at McGill University; and Lloyd Axworthy, chair of the World Refugee & Migration Council, and former foreign minister of Canada on TVO’s The Agenda with Steve Paikin to discuss the issue.
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Interesting topics to be discussed , however, in my opinion, Canada has lost its status of a « solid and influential » country, quite a few years ago and we are not respected on international basis when comes important global issue. We also lack of high personality Prime minister and diplomats that are globally perceived has really influent and that has a « can do » reputation and not just a « can talk » reputation like we have today..
Again, it is just a personnel opinion