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As the government of Justin Trudeau prepares to seek re-election this year, Canada's foreign policy is coming under new scrutiny. Has Canada assumed a new mantle of moral leadership in the world? Are the Liberals charting a new course on human rights with Russia, Saudi Arabia and China, and driving change for women? Is its return to peacekeeping real or illusory? Andrew Cohen, author, professor, journalist and Global Fellow of the Canada Institute discusses Canada's place in the world.

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• 鈥淭he world is important to us in terms of trade. We say certain things at certain times, and I鈥檓 glad we lend our support to diplomatic efforts鈥�. My argument has been, and remains today, that given our advantages, given our blessings, given our benefits, we could do much, much more. Smaller countries do more with what they have, than we do.鈥� 
• 鈥淚f we are, in our goals, attempting to do things differently, to raise the stature of women, terrific. What makes me suspicious is that we鈥檙e using that as a fig leaf, to a degree rhetorically and otherwise, to obscure what we鈥檙e not doing. And what we鈥檙e not doing is we are not reaching or meeting commitments that we had long decided we should.鈥�
• 鈥淐anada鈥檚 foreign policy, beyond the United States, has become what I call a gestural foreign policy. It is one gesture at a time, and it鈥檚 an illusory foreign policy. It鈥檚 not that it doesn鈥檛 do good things, but there鈥檚 a level of rhetoric unmatched by the reality.鈥�