Friday, April 30, 2004
Even the Canadians are starting to recognize the fatal flaws inherent in that vicious old hag of an organization, the UN, and starting to consider new alternatives.
(Via Instapundit) The Globe and Mail: PM hopes to extricate Canada from UN box
The Prime Minister's proposed alternative is a new international body, the G-20 summit of world leaders, representative of North and South, developed and developing, rich and poor: a working group unfettered by the UN's bureaucracy and its anachronistic Security Council.
It is a bold, though perhaps unworkable plan. But however it is ultimately greeted by the world community, Mr. Martin's proposal at least recognizes and sets out to correct a fundamental flaw in Canadian foreign policy, one that has left us hostage to a dysfunctional world body whose interests are often irrelevant to Canada's...