FM Anita Anand Says Canada Will Diversify International Relationships: ‘We Can No Longer Afford To Be Overly Reliant on Any One Partner’

RUSH EXCERPT:
ANAND: "Mr president. Excellencies colleagues and friends. Modules. I was born in nova scotia on Canada’s East Coast and grew up there. The daughter of immigrants, nova, scotia’s, all know the same thing. The tide does not wait. You must move with it. The tide has turned in the global order as well as Canadian historian. Margaret macmillan has observed. We have arrived in a new age of disorder. We are facing a rupture, not a transition. Great powers are walking away from global economic cooperation. Dismantling economic integration, great powers want the rest of us to accept what we are offered and too often state sovereignty. The cornerstone of. The UN charter has been treated with disdain. We are facing serious challenges in the global order, but at their core Canadians and billions of others around the world. Want to live peaceful, prosperous and predictable lives. That is why, in the face Of this rupture, Canada’s goal is to achieve greater strategic, autonomy, greater autonomy, to make our own choices and to determine our own sovereign future. We can no longer afford to be overly reliant on any one partner. Instead, we are diversifying our ties and building stronger relationships with new and old partners alike, so that our people can enjoy peace and prosperity. We will prioritize decisive, effective action by forging issue based coalitions of nations that share a sense of urgency on common challenges. We believe that these coalitions are the most flexible, effective, an immediate way to address emerging global challenges. We are already forming these coalitions with small states, middle powers and great powers alike. Through, the coalition of the willing Canada is working with over 30 allies and partners to bolster Ukraine and defend against further Russian aggression"