OTTAWA 芒鈧�� Prime Minister Justin Trudeau blamed Canada芒鈧劉s failed attempt to gain a UN Security Council seat on entering the race late 芒鈧�� a decision he deliberately made in 2016 after other countries芒鈧劉 campaigns were well underway.

芒鈧揑t was the prime minister芒鈧劉s decision to enter late,芒鈧� said Adam Chapnick, a professor at the Royal Military College and author of a book on Canada and the UN. 芒鈧揌e has identified the exact reason that Canada did not perform as well as the government wanted it to.芒鈧�

But one former Canadian ambassador blamed the failure on the Trudeau government芒鈧劉s superficial foreign policy that hamstrung its diplomats.

芒鈧揑t shows that through the Trudeau years Canada芒鈧劉s superficiality and insouciance in foreign affairs got through to the rest of the world, and the world decided we were too flimsy, unfocused, ad hoc and chaotic to merit support,芒鈧� said Stephen Lewis, a lifelong New Democrat who was appointed by then Progressive Conservative prime minister Brian Mulroney to be his UN ambassador in the 1980s.

Canada lost the vote Wednesday finishing behind Norway and Ireland in the contest for two non-permanent seats on the Security Council. Norway had 130 votes, Ireland 128 and Canada 108.

Trudeau, who personally championed the campaign, spoke to dozens of world leaders and made the initial decision to vie for the seat in 2016.

芒鈧揟he reality was that coming in five years later than them, gave us a delay that unfortunately we weren芒鈧劉t able to overcome,芒鈧� said Trudeau at a press conference Thursday.