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Singling out Prime Minister Stephen Harper’s stance on Ukraine and Israel, Liberal leader Justin Trudeau told an Iranian-Canadian newspaper that the Tories are pursuing a foreign policy strategy that serves only to pander to voters.

“Whether it’s positioning around Israel or working closely with the United States, [Stephen Harper is] very, very much focused on what is going to play well at the ballot box,” he told a panel of editors for Salam Toronto, a bilingual weekly that publishes in Farsi and English and is distributed throughout southern Ontario.

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He added, “that’s not my vision for what Canada can be.”

In a 30-minute March 27 interview with the paper’s editors since posted to YouTube, Mr. Trudeau also dismissed Mr. Harper’s recent trip to Ukraine, calling it a “three hour photo op,” and stressed his own status as an “international traveller.”

“All my life I’ve been an international traveller; I’ve spent years travelling around the world seeing all sorts of different countries,” he said, noting that he has seen “90 countries.”