Last week, Foreign Affairs Minister Anita Anand took the podium at the United Nations to deliver Ottawa’s vision of Canadian foreign policy. She evoked “three pillars”: defence and security, economic resilience, and core values, including gender equality and environmental protection — in that order.

Some commentators have cast this as a break with former prime minister Justin Trudeau’s evangelical promotion of progressive values: feminism, climate change, and diversity. Anand placed these at the bottom of her hierarchy and concluded by saying that Canada will not be judged by the “strength of our values, but the value of our strength.”

But not so fast. Progressivism isn’t dead yet. Instead of defending its tenets, Anand spent the bulk of her speech defending its chief champion: the U

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