{"id":12884,"date":"2022-05-24T07:46:08","date_gmt":"2022-05-24T10:46:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.justrightmedia.org\/blog\/?p=12884"},"modified":"2022-09-04T09:57:34","modified_gmt":"2022-09-04T12:57:34","slug":"canada-first-a-concept-foreign-to-canadas-foreign-policy-salim-mansur","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/justrightmedia.org\/blog\/archives\/12884","title":{"rendered":"Canada First\u2014A concept foreign to Canada&#8217;s foreign policy | Salim Mansur"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"youtube-embed\" itemprop=\"video\" itemscope itemtype=\"https:\/\/schema.org\/VideoObject\">\n\t<meta itemprop=\"url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/IUlJsha-KCg\" \/>\n\t<meta itemprop=\"name\" content=\"Canada First\u2014A concept foreign to Canada&#8217;s foreign policy | Salim Mansur\" \/>\n\t<meta itemprop=\"description\" content=\"Canada First\u2014A concept foreign to Canada&#8217;s foreign policy | Salim Mansur\" \/>\n\t<meta itemprop=\"uploadDate\" content=\"2022-05-24T07:46:08-03:00\" \/>\n\t<meta itemprop=\"thumbnailUrl\" content=\"https:\/\/i.ytimg.com\/vi\/IUlJsha-KCg\/default.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta itemprop=\"embedUrl\" content=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/IUlJsha-KCg\" \/>\n\t<meta itemprop=\"height\" content=\"310\" \/>\n\t<meta itemprop=\"width\" content=\"550\" \/>\n\t<iframe loading=\"lazy\" style=\"border: 0;\" class=\"youtube-player\" width=\"550\" height=\"310\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/IUlJsha-KCg?modestbranding=1&fs=0&rel=0\"><\/iframe>\n<\/div>\n\n<p>Since Confederation Canada&#8217;s policies regarding war have always been as a follower; a follower of Mother Britain (Boer War, WWI, WWII), a follower of the United States (Avro Arrow, Bomarc Missile) and a follower of the United Nations (Korea, Cyprus, Rwanda, Balkans&#8230;).<\/p>\n<p>During those times it did not join the US in battle\u2014Vietnam and the second Gulf War\u2014it had been because such actions were not sanctioned by the UN.<\/p>\n<p>The current conflict in Ukraine only demonstrates, once again, that Canada does not have a foreign policy which benefits Canadians. Rather, its position is crafted to ingratiate itself to its betters in the United Nations.<\/p>\n<p>In this discussion, Professor Salim Mansur explains that Canada has been living in a globalist fog which prevents it from asserting its own best interests in foreign affairs and from having a &#8220;Canada First&#8221; foreign policy. Worse, as a &#8220;post-national state&#8221; without a &#8220;core identity&#8221; as Justin Trudeau has described Canada, it has no concept of what its national interests even are.<\/p>\n<p>If you found this presentation valuable please consider supporting us:<br \/>\n&#x1f9e1; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.paypal.me\/justrightmedia\"\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">PayPal<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Since Confederation Canada&#8217;s policies regarding war have always been as a follower; a follower of Mother Britain (Boer War, WWI, WWII), a follower of the United States (Avro Arrow, Bomarc Missile) and a follower of the United Nations (Korea, Cyprus, Rwanda, Balkans&#8230;). During those times it did not join the US in battle\u2014Vietnam and the <a href='https:\/\/justrightmedia.org\/blog\/archives\/12884' class='excerpt-more'>[Continue Reading]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1046,3134,28,259,6,27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12884","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-foreign-relations-politics","category-globalism","category-latest","category-military","category-politics","category-video","issues-foreign-policy","issues-globalism","issues-ukraine-conflict","guests-salim-mansur","category-1046-id","category-3134-id","category-28-id","category-259-id","category-6-id","category-27-id","post-seq-1","post-parity-odd","meta-position-corners","fix"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/justrightmedia.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12884","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/justrightmedia.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/justrightmedia.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/justrightmedia.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/justrightmedia.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12884"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/justrightmedia.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12884\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12885,"href":"https:\/\/justrightmedia.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12884\/revisions\/12885"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/justrightmedia.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12884"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/justrightmedia.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12884"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/justrightmedia.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12884"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}