Anita Anand

We have pledged to find Ukrainians who have been taken from their homes. We have pledged to bring them back, knowing that it can be dangerous, complex, difficult, but above all necessary.

The testimony that we have heard over the past two days underscores the intense and unacceptable suffering that we know exists at Russia’s hands.

They must stop obstructing their return, provide information about where these children are (and) stop altering their identities.

This is not an accident, this is not a side-effect of war. This is a systematic effort to separate Ukrainian children from Ukraine.

So while Canada has Operation Reassurance on the Eastern flank, we cannot forget that NATO, the North Atlantic Treaty Organization, should have a view that is based on a strategic assessment of the North and the Arctic, in order to ensure…

So the United States is very much at the table in this conversation.

Ottawa is pursuing 'values-based realism' while advocating for democracy in Iran, the return of Ukrainian children kidnapped by Russia and work to end Haiti's gruesome gang crisis," Anand said.

This agreement is yet another reminder that North America and Europe are stronger together. And as a founding member of NATO, our commitment to the transatlantic alliance is ironclad," Anand said.

Canada is an open, pluralistic society, with a public square full of robust and civil debate. Our success is underpinned by this civility, by our democratic institutions and by respect for our differences," she said.

The tide does not wait; you must move with it," Anand used an analogy that she said comes from her roots in rural Nova Scotia.

We will lead other middle powers to act collectively and decisively, because middle powers are playing a key role in building the framework for the new international order — which is being established as we speak," Anand said.

In the face of this rupture, Canada's goal is to achieve greater strategic autonomy," she said at the green marble dais.

Great powers are walking away from global economic co-operation, dismantling economic integration," Anand said Saturday in Canada's annual address to the United Nations General Assembly.

Protecting our democracy is of the utmost importance to our country.

If people “hide under a rock until conflicts disappear, you’re not doing the work of diplomacy.”

Our position is … to respect decisions of international courts and … to support, at all times, people who are suffering, including in Gaza and Palestine and the West Bank, and to ensure that crimes against humanity are addressed as such.

We are undertaking investments that our country needs at this moment in time.

Protecting and defending the Arctic is our top priority.

We are ironclad with Ukraine—and not just because we have 1.3 million Canadians of Ukrainian descent in our country.

Canada will continue to bring countries together for that conversation and look for tangible items that we can put on the table.

We’re doubling non-U.S. trade over the next 10 years.

Our economies, which have been integrated for decades upon decades, are mutually interdependent.

Ottawa will introduce restrictions on trade in goods with settlements in the West Bank that are illegal under international law.

For more than 70 years, successive Canadian governments have held the position that a two-state solution is the way forward for long-term peace that also addresses Israel’s legitimate security concerns. Illegal settlements in the West Bank…