Intellectual Sources of Canada’s Foreign Policy
February 18, 2005 · By Tom Cerber
Thanks to Anonymous for alerting me to the relative indifference of Canadians to the intellectual sources of their foreign policy. It reminded me of a good review of Lloyd Axworthy’s book by Barry Cooper, who uses Robert Musil’s category of “secondary reality” to great effect in criticizing Axworthy’s views on foreign policy. No doubt the same analysis could be brought to our current Minister of Foreign Affairs.
[...] Just when we thought Lloyd Axworthy is the apotheosis of idiotic Liberal foreign-defense policy thinking, along comes former Canadian Minister of Defence and Deputy Prime Minister under Pierre Trudeau, Paul Hellyer, who warned a UofT audience last night about the dangers of ET coming to take on us earthlings in an intergalatic war: Mr. Hellyer went on to say, “I’m so concerned about what the consequences might be of starting an intergalactic war, that I just think I had to say something.” [...]