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Conrad Black: Last chance for Carney's foreign policy
He must produce a policy that maintains constructive relations with the U.S. while increasing Canadian influence in the world
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Last week I reviewed mainly the domestic record of the government of Prime Minister Mark Carney over the past 13 months, although, as was mentioned, the principal point that Canadians seem to hold in his favour is the foreign policy perception of his ability ”to stand up to Trump.” Few could forget how Carney, with the connivance of the anti-conservative national political media, represented his campaign as a Churchillian finest hour of national defence against a belligerent America. That burlesque has ended and Carney must now face the question of how to deal with the United States, a subject that our longest-serving prime minister, W.L. Mackenzie King, described to General de Gaulle in 1945 as “an overwhelming contiguity.”
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Mark Carney has conspicuously questioned the legality of the American and Israeli military intervention to prevent the development and deployment of Iranian nuclear weapons. This is a dishonest and profoundly mistaken policy. Iran has offered constant provocations that could justify military reprisal throughout the 47-year infamous history of the Islamic Republic, as the principal state sponsor of terrorism in the world. The principal European countries and the European Union itself joined in the disgraceful nuclear agreement with Iran negotiated by the Obama administration, which gave a green light to such deployment of nuclear weapons after 10 years. That would have elapsed last year. The world owes a great debt of gratitude to President Trump and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu for preventing this eventuality. Greater independence from the U.S. by all means, but not by suggesting moral equivalence between Washington and the murderous ayatollahs.
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