4 - International Security: Canada’s Role in Meeting Global Threats - Bessma Momani

The key changes highlighted in this report involve the increase The following recommendations are made: of geopolitical tension and the destabilizing role played by key state actors such as China and → Canada needs a well-formulated and Russia; challenges to the rules-based international independent foreign policy strategy, designed order, the maintenance of which is critical to to protect and adv. [...] The complexities of the current situation allies to confront Russian efforts to destabilize require new investments in thinking about and international security and to combat Russian delivering on a Canadian role in the world. [...] While domestic forces in At the end of World War II, Canada was among the United States still exert a gravitational pull the key architects of multilateral institutions in the direction of a more “America-first” and and a strong voice for the liberal international unilateralist stance, the rhetoric of the current Joe order, participating in the creation of the United Biden administration seems foc. [...] For Canada, the alliances and multilateral engagements such as process of negotiating the Canada-United States- the North American Aerospace Defense Command Mexico Agreement demonstrated the importance (NORAD), the Group of Seven (G7), the Group of of deep and extensive engagement with diverse Twenty (G20) and the Five Eyes security alliance American political actors, from the White House have all. [...] How Canada reacts in defence Modernizing the North Warning System , a joint US- of democracy and in defence of global civil Canada early-warning radar system, is important liberties will be a pre-eminent challenge for the to the future of NORAD and to the bilateral security conduct of Canadian international policy.