The Conservative Leader has yet to establish his foreign-policy bona fides – which is tougher to justify amid so much international conflict
Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre rises during question period in the House of Commons on Parliament Hill in Ottawa on Oct. 25.While we’re busy beating up on Prime Minister Justin Trudeau for his missteps on foreign affairs and lack of stature abroad, what is to be said about the capabilities of his potential successor in this war-battered world?hasn’t been prominent in foreign affairs debates, and he hasn’t really wanted to be.
Mr. Alexander, who served in Stephen Harper’s cabinet, speaks from experience, having worked abroad as a diplomat, a Canadian ambassador to Afghanistan and a United Nations official. The parochial Mr. Poilievre hasn’t travelled beyond Canada much, hasn’t met with many foreign leaders or demonstrated any intellectual curiosity in speeches about the ominous forces accruing against American paramountcy.
It might serve him well to visit foreign capitals, to sit down with leaders to get a feel of things first-hand, to demonstrate whether he has diplomatic skills to counterbalance his reputation as a hatchetman, as opposed to statesman. Canadian opposition leaders have been hesitant to go abroad to boost their foreign-policy bona fides ever since Tory leader Joe Clark’s infamous 1979 world tour. Poor Joe. The four-country trip was one embarrassment after another, beginning with him losing his luggage and continuing with several rather obtuse observations.
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