Irvin Studin: Does Canada really care about Ukraine?
Foreign policy has two legitimate functions: to advance a country’s interests and/or to change the world. A country that uses foreign policy primarily to talk to itself engages in the basest form of the art: it misleads its own people into thinking they are improving the world just as key national interests are being compromised. In the matter of Ukraine, where there are no angels, we in Canada have been unique among the nations in convincing ourselves that we are on the right side of history in near-complete abstraction from Ukraine’s deteriorating realities and at the expense of critical long-term Canadian interests.