Canada ‘abandoning’ international law with support for U.S. strikes on Iran: Former diplomats

The Hill Times: He (Former foreign affairs minister Lloyd Axworthy) said it has become a pattern for Carney to show U.S. President Donald Trump that Canada can be a “complicit partner.” 

“It’s an abandonment of a long-standing element of our foreign policy,” said Axworthy, who served as Canada’s top diplomat under then-Liberal prime minister Jean Chrétien from 1996 to 2000. 

Axworthy said the best way to protect Canada as a middle power is to ensure there are laws enforced that stop great powers from “throwing their weight around.”…

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