Trudeau\u0027s decision to release a half\u002Ddozen pipeline turbines, allowing Vladimir Putin to further engorge his treasury with the natural\u002Dgas money he’s extorting…
It’s not quite the same as the spectacle Prime Minister Justin Trudeau made of himself in his magical mystery tour of India back in 2018, with his multiple fancy-dress costume changes, his flamboyant banghra dancing and the convicted would-be assassin in his entourage. And then having his national-security adviser try to quietly explain away the disgrace with the insinuation that it was all a set-up job by India’s intelligence agencies.
But Scholz and Trudeau are cast from the same mould as German Foreign Minister Annalena Baerbock and Trudeau’s foreign minister, Mélanie Joly, and former German chancellor Gerhard Schröder and Stéphane Dion, the Chrétien-era fixture you never hear about these days, even though he’s Canada’s ambassador to Germany and special envoy to the European Union.
Meanwhile, the like-minded Schröder had gone on to become the world’s richest ex-politician, raking it in from his board sinecures with Gazprom, the Russian natural gas giant. In the lead-up to Putin’s full-scale war of conquest in Ukraine, Scholz — Schröder’s Social-Democratic Party successor after the interregnum of Russia-friendly Angela Merkel — was adamant that the German-Russian gas business should remain untroubled.
A full two weeks after the invasion, our own minister Joly was insisting that Canada’s role, like Germany’s, should involve only aid and diplomacy. “Canada is not a nuclear power, it is not a military power. We’re a middle-sized power and what we’re good at is convening and making sure that diplomacy is happening, and meanwhile convincing other countries to do more.”
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