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Originally Posted by CaptainCrunch
We thankfully got rid of the concept of a soft power foreign policy a few years ago, and have taken a harder line when dealing with countries with questionable human rights and international foreign policy.
We got out of the useless UN Peacekeeping game, mostly because we committed actual combat troops to the UN mission in Afghanistan.
Canada and other like nations can't win in the UN because the UN has shifted into a 3rd world power enabler, so Canada seems to be ignoring it more and more.
From a aid standpoint, we're still sending significant money abroad, but it has been cut back.
Canadian foreign policy is a lot harder then it used to be. We've gone from asking nicely and suggestioning, to actually telling.
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Telling what, though? I haven't seen that much telling of anyone or anything. Is it making a difference at all, besides possibly costing Canada its image on the world stage? Is Canada, as a nation, really in a position to do the telling rather than the brokering?