FIRST READING: All the countries Trudeau has estranged (and some he hasn’t)

Denmark and Ukraine like him, India not a lot

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TOP STORY

So right here’s a fast overview of how that’s gone. We’ll begin with the excellent news …

BETTER

UKRAINE

ROMANIA

DENMARK

The Trudeau authorities negotiated a decisive finish to the Whisky Battle, a battle between Denmark and Canada over the possession of Hans Island, an uninhabited, treeless piece of land positioned halfway between Nunavut and Greenland. The so-called Whiskey Battle referred to the follow of every nation’s armed forces to make occasional visits to the island with a purpose to hoist their flag and go away a bottle of whiskey as an assertion of sovereignty. In any case, the island has a border by way of it now, that means Canada technically shares a land border with an E.U. nation now.

Hans Island, a beacon of hope to a troubled world.Photograph by Toubletap/Wikimedia Commons

ABOUT THE SAME

GERMANY

German Chancellor Olaf Scholz made a uncommon state go to to Canada in 2022 with the express intention of begging Ottawa for a few of its plentiful pure gasoline. After Russian provides of fossil fuels have been shut off by the Ukraine struggle, an energy-starved Germany was left to roam the world for substitute sources whereas concurrently firing up a few of its mothballed coal crops.

JAPAN

THE UNITED STATES

IRAN

WORSE

INDIA

If India actually is ordering hits on individuals in Surrey, that may be a sore level with any Canadian authorities. However the Nijjar affair is however the whipped cream topping on the Trudeau authorities’s completely disastrous mismanagement of Indian relations.

CHINA

RUSSIA

Russia has a reasonably damaging relationship with most of Planet Earth proper now, so it’s by no means shocking that Canada’s relations with Moscow can also be at an all-time low. One of many weirder facets of the Russo-Canadian relationship is how each nations have been drafting duelling lists of “sanctioned people.” Russia began by banning the Trudeau cupboard from travelling to Russia, then the remainder of Parliament – after which they simply began including the names of random Canadian celebrities and just about any Canadian journalist who had ever badmouthed them in print, together with about half a dozen Nationwide Submit contributors.    

VENEZUELA

SAUDI ARABIA

THE PHILIPPINES

ITALY

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