Paul Martin’s Hope for World Government, Part 2

Angry in the Great White North has a post on a 2003 document from the Prime Minister’s Office detailing the PM’s desire for world government, or at least an international system where nation-states appear irrelevant. This comes as no surprise, as we’ve previously noticed Martin’s liberal internationalism.

Based on the text of the document, that perhaps that’s an overstatement. However, the document simulataneously wants to enhance Canada’s role in the world and promote Canada’s values in international institutions and the developing world; and:

develop[...] a strategy for renewing the multilateral system to enhance its effectiveness in promoting global governance;

If this statement were published by the White House, it would be interpreted as a neocon proclamation to take over the UN and other international organizations and reshape them in America’s own image. But Canada has no power to reshape those institutions. It arguably has no image of its own to reshape those institutions into.

The document might be a joke. Or people in the PMO can’t tell the difference between “Canadian values” and internationalist values.

Either way, it shows how much Canada is irrelevant to international affairs.