%0 Journal Article
%T The origins of Canada¡¯s feminist foreign policy
%A Adam Chapnick
%J International Journal
%@ 2052-465X
%D 2019
%R 10.1177/0020702019850827
%X In January 2019, a leading Canadian foreign policy blog, OpenCanada.org, declared that ¡°[u]nder the government of Justin Trudeau, Canada has embraced a feminist foreign policy¡ªgradually at first, and with fervor over the past year.¡± Although critics have debated the policy¡¯s effectiveness, the embrace, if not also the fervor, was indisputable. By 2019, the Trudeau government¡¯s second foreign minister, Chrystia Freeland, was proclaiming Canada¡¯s feminist approach to international relations openly and regularly. The international community had also noticed. This article investigates the origins of the new Canadian foreign policy ¡°brand.¡± It finds that, contrary to popular thinking, the prime minister himself played at most a minor role in the initiation of what became a full-fledged transformation of Canada¡¯s global image
%K Canadian foreign policy
%K Justin Trudeau
%K feminist foreign policy
%K foreign policy branding
%K liberal foreign policy
%K brand
%K gender
%U https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/0020702019850827