'(If) you pull out of that, you lose your voice, you lose your influence,' former Canadian UN ambassador Louise Blais tells John Ivison

In this week’s show, John Ivison chats with Canada’s former ambassador and deputy permanent resident to the United Nations, Louise Blais, about whether the United Nations still has a role to play.

Last week, Conservative MP Leslyn Lewis promoted a petition urging Canada to leave the UN.

Blais said the UN is not perfect and needs to be reformed, “but we’re not going to reform it from the outside”

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“(If) you pull out of that, you lose your voice, you lose your influence, and you lose your ability to affect things that will impact the country … Canada won’t always have what it wants out of it but in the total sum of it all, we definitely have benefited historically enormously from the multilateral order. As it’s shifting now, I think we really have to make sure that it shifts the right way. It’s not going the right direction right now but that doesn’t mean that we can’t turn course,” she said.

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