Ottawa is pursuing trade, investment, and security agreements that privilege corporate access and geopolitical leverage, even when doing so aligns Canada with governments . The prime minister has described this approach as “principled and pragmatic,” as “values-based realism.”
Why not? After all, it just makes economic sense to trade with America, no matter how “implicated in repression, environmental harm, or grave humanitarian crises” they are,
You took the most important part out of the quote. Here’s the quote:
Ottawa is pursuing trade, investment, and security agreements that privilege corporate access and geopolitical leverage, even when doing so aligns Canada with governments implicated in repression, environmental harm, or grave humanitarian crises. The prime minister has described this approach as “principled and pragmatic,” as “values-based realism.”
The article is all about condemning Ottawa’s stance while completely ignoring America completely fits their criteria just as well.
