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Wars, in particular, reverberate across the generations. They feature what economists refer to as a "long tail." As of 2019, the United States continued to provide pensions to Civil War veterans' dependents, as well as more than 4,000 from the Spanish-American (1898) and Philippine-American (1899-1902) conflicts. When I was a kid, our neighbor, the spinster Miss Jones, was a Victorian who could recall the outbreak of World War I. Her father most likely had a neighbour who remembers the Battle of Waterloo when he was a youngster.The advent of audio and film recording altered historical memory permanently, allowing us to experience the past not just vicariously but viscerally. Civil War troops performing the Rebel Yell, Tennyson reciting The Charge of the Light Brigade, and Brahms performing one of his Hungarian Dances are all examples of time capsules available on YouTube. The sound quality is low and distorted due to rudimentary equipment, yet it is undeniably the sound of living humans. And if you close your eyes and use your imagination, you may be there with them.We have images of Anne Frank, but no recordings. But I still can't get over the fact that she could be alive today, or the thought of all the unborn children, grandchildren, and great-grandchildren who were snuffed out with her but would otherwise be walking our streets and bringing flowers to brighten her room at the nursing home. We should not discard such thoughts; they are important to remember. Or, as Alistair Cooke told Stephen Fry, "never forget.

In a memorable phrase from the 1974. 

neo-noir movie Chinatown, corrupt Los Angeles water commissioner Noah Cross tells hardboiled private investigator Jake Gittes, "Of course I'm respectable; I'm elderly. Politicians, unattractive buildings, and w—-s can all become'respectable' if they survive long enough."Justin Trudeau, making his ninth trip as Prime Minister of Canada to the UN General Assembly, may be wondering what makes him an exception to the usual.Trudeau's visit to the United Nations in New York came just a week after a dismal performance at the G20 conference in Delhi. Trudeau's tough weekend in the Indian capital saw him treated coldly by his fellow world leaders, culminating in a sharply worded (and very public) criticism from the host nation's leader. The strained relations are especially understandable now that we know Trudeau faced Prime Minister Narendra Modi with serious allegations of an extrajudicial, extraterritorial assassination of a Canadian citizen on Canadian soil by Indian security forces. Both Canada and India have now removed their senior diplomats.To add salt to injury, the prime minister and his entourage were forced to stay in India for an extra day last week due to mechanical troubles that caused the Canadian delegation's jet to become stuck on the tarmac at Delhi airport.

The India catastrophe follows weeks of. 

negative international news for Trudeau, with many criticizing him for allowing Canada to become a liability to the NATO defense alliance while he was in office. (According to a recent US intelligence leak, Trudeau has privately assured NATO officials that Canada will "never" reach the alliance's defense budget target of 2% of GDP.)Trudeau has also raised feathers recently with his predilection for moralizing on the global stage, such as criticizing Italian Prime Minister Georgia Meloni's record on LGBT matters at this May's G7 Leaders' Summit in Hiroshima, Japan.Last weekend, when asked what the Canadian delegation contributed to the G20 summit's concluding communiqué, Trudeau responded (with a straight face): "gender language (and) Indigenous reflection." This response prompted a groan half a world away in Canada.Trudeau, being the longest-tenured G7 leader and one of the world's most experienced leaders, should be a force to be reckoned with in the international arena—a sector that has traditionally been controlled by older statesmen such as Churchill, de Gaulle, Mandela, and King. However, far from assuming the role of éminence grise, Trudeau remains something of a Rodney Dangerfield of world politics: no matter what he accomplishes, he just can't seem to "get no respect". For example, Canada's closest allies have yet to express full-throated support in the ongoing India crisis.So, why hasn't Trudeau's long term turned into influence?

One evident flaw in the Canadian prime. 

minister's foreign policy over his eight years in office has been a continuous chasm between words and actions. While Trudeau has seldom missed an opportunity to speak out at a global meeting, he has shown a noticeable lack of follow-through. Aside from Canada's inadequate defense spending, the Trudeau government has equally underwhelmed in the humanitarian realm, cutting international aid by $1.3 billion (or 16 percent) in its most recent federal budget.

There is certainly a gap between rhetoric and reality," non-profit executive Kate Higgins stated in response to the budget reduction.The Trudeau government has also been accused of failing to meet its obligations to assist a besieged Ukraine, despite Canada having the world's second-largest Ukrainian diaspora after Russia. Even more disgraceful was our abandonment of interpreters and other vulnerable aid workers following our disorderly departure from Afghanistan two years ago. (For two decades, war-torn Afghanistan served as the focal focus of Canadian foreign policy, with Tim Hortons and Hockey Night in Kandahar leaving their cultural impact.Prime Minister Trudeau and his cabinet are obviously focused on domestic issues right now, attempting to reverse a cost-of-living crisis that has played havoc on their poll ratings. They cannot, however, afford to ignore Canada's growing irrelevance in international affairs, particularly at a time of global turmoil caused by an increase in Russian and Chinese aggressiveness.