There is a classically Canadian, half-hearted campaign for Canada to become a permanent Security Council member at the United Nations. It reminds me of the late Mitchell Sharp, the Canadian head of the Trilateral Commission (after having been minister of finance and of external affairs), telling me that when he set out to secure approval for Canadian continuation in the Trilateral Commission, he could find no enthusiasm for it. This is an organization of fairly eminent people from Western Europe, the United States, Canada and Japan that meets every year and goes over a wide range of contemporary issues.
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