🇨🇦 Carney admits Canada is blind abroad

Mark Carney says Canada is at a disadvantage in Iran because we have no diplomatic presence there, then in the same breath insists there is no plan to reopen an embassy, as reported. That is Ottawa in one sentence: confess the policy failure, then cling to it anyway. He even admits Canada has to rely on countries that are not our natural allies to get Canadians out. So after years of moral posing, we are subcontracting basic state functions because our foreign policy class prefers slogans to leverage.

This is the Trudeau-Carney legacy in miniature: grandstanding abroad, weakness in practice, and Canadian citizens left as an afterthought. Anita Anand said regime change would be needed before ties return, Carney says no discussions are happening, yet officials are floating alternatives and reviewing options for months. Translation: the usual elite fog machine. A serious country keeps channels open where its citizens may need help. A post-national vanity project closes doors, lectures the world, and calls helplessness principles.

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