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Canada’s crisis with China is dragging on, the latest foreign affairs calamity that refutes the Liberal government’s overbearing braggadocio that ‘Canada is back’.

After the 2015 election, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau trumpeted that without the Natural Governing Party in power our country had not been seen or counted among the nations. If Trudeau had confined his remarks to a domestic audience, it could be put down to relatively harmless, if outlandish, partisan conceit. However, Trudeau and his Minister of Foreign Affairs Chrystia Freeland took his progressive proselytizing abroad to sometimes bemused but frequently outraged foreign governments.

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Through naïveté and an unerring ability to step on political land mines, the self-congratulatory duo seriously strained relationships with our two largest trading partners, the largest democracy in the world and other countries, large and small. The harm has been serious and recovery will be slow and painful.