Recently Canada has contributed less to peacekeeping missions and given less foreign aid than its European rivals for a seat on the Security Council
Security Council will have to schmooze. Before the pandemic Canada entertained ambassadors to the2, a rock band from Dublin, to give its candidacy a plug from the stage. Lacking globally famous pop stars, Norway spent Nkr2m on a travelling exhibition promoting its “contribution to African liberation”.’s main decision-making body, which has five permanent members with vetoes, including the United States and China. On June 17thmember states chose Norway and Ireland.
This was humiliating for Justin Trudeau, Canada’s Liberal prime minister, who had campaigned for a seat for four years. “Canada is back,” he declared after taking office in 2015. “More like back of the line,” foes in Parliament now retort. This is Canada’s second recent Security Council loss. In 2010 the Conservative government of Stephen Harper was edged out by Portugal.
Canada has plenty of multilateral credentials. Lester Pearson, a future prime minister, won the Nobel peace prize in 1957 for initiating the first armedpeacekeeping operation to resolve the Suez crisis. A successor, Paul Martin, was the architect of the20 group of rich and emerging economies. Canada hosted the conference that in 1987 produced the Montreal protocol, which protects the ozone layer.
Yet a gap has emerged between how Canada sees itself and how the world sees it, observes Bessma Momani of the University of Waterloo. Canada has recently contributed less topeacekeeping missions and given less aid to developing countries than its European rivals. It had 34 active peacekeepers at the end of May; Ireland, with an eighth of its population, had 466. Canada’s development assistance last year amounted to 0.
More bad news followed the Security Council disappointment. On June 19th China announced that Michael Kovrig and Michael Spavor, Canadian citizens, have been charged with spying. China detained them in December 2018 after Canada, acting on an extradition request from the United States, arrested Meng Wanzhou, the chief financial officer of Huawei, a Chinese telecoms giant.
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