Thanks for this!

Genuine question: given the struggles of PM Carney and Minister Anand to calibrate Canada’s response to the Iran war to the requirements of international law, the UN Charter and other accepted norms, are they being adequately served by the bureaucracy at Global Affairs? To someone on the outside of the Ottawa foreign policy establishment they’ve looked feckless, a pattern that has coalesced beginning with their anodyne responses to the Israel / Hamas war despite there being a crystal clear humanitarian imperative.

Is GAC adequately tooled to give good advice to the Minister and PM on the blood-and-guts issues of a world on fire? If not, what needs to change?