Given all that has happened since — new and still-raging wars; diplomatic chills; everblooming fears for the future — it almost seems quaint to recall. But last November was still a dead-serious time on the world stage.
Mélanie Joly, the affable political survivor from Montreal who serves as Canada’s foreign affairs minister, was in Bucharest to meet her counterparts in the North Atlantic Treaty Organization. Just before travelling to the Romanian capital, Joly had released her Indo-Pacific strategy, a much-hyped blueprint that lays out how Canada will deal with rising powers like India and China in a massive stretch of the globe.
