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Conrad Black: How to give new purpose to Canada and Britain

Revive the old Commonwealth

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The world is nostalgic for a respected Britain, is waiting for a mature Canada, and India is surging. Instead of Britain standing outside the door of Europe and Canada and India shivering in the shadow of America or China, and the Anzacs alone at the end of the earth, we should collaborate, for our collective good and for the stability in the world. The United Kingdom is floundering through its seventh consecutive failed government and is attempting to redefine its secession from the European Union by creeping backwards toward it, having almost severed its alliance with the United States by equivocating between that country and Iran, the world‘s greatest state sponsor of terrorism in the current conflict. At the same time, Prime Minister Mark Carney has assigned Canada and himself the role of rounding up disgruntled, so-called middle powers that harbour grievances against the United States, in particular, and getting them all to stand upon each other’s shoulders so that they will be taken more seriously in the chancelleries of the world. Both the U.K. and Canada have been thrust into these improbable vocations by prolonged mismanagement of their own foreign relations and national interests.

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Both these concepts are nonsense. Almost all of Europe is approaching a crisis of decadence and survival. It remains to be seen if Europe can........

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