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Making Peace in a Divided World: New Roles for the United Nations?
- Analysis
- October 1, 2015
There is no more annoying phrase in discussions of international affairs than “If the United Nations did not exist, we would have to invent it!” It is certainly true that the world urgently needs an effective collective security organization today. But the organization it needs bears only a passing resemblance to the UN we
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Transition Memos Show Foreign Ministry Is Doing Its Job
- Analysis
- September 30, 2015
A series of foreign ministry memos, leaked to the media in recent days, offer an unflattering assessment of Canada’s declining international influence and reputation. They are apparently draft “transition” documents, which the federal bureaucracy prepares before every election. Some defenders of the Conservative government quickly took to social media and assailed the Department of Foreign
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The Munk Leaders’ Debate: Opportunity Missed
- Analysis
- September 30, 2015
The Munk Leaders’ Debate was supposed to be about foreign policy, but at many times it was really about a three-man horse race. That race was about which progressive horse could finish first, or whether the conservative horse would end up winning by solidifying his base with the fear of terrorists and Putin. Only in
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When we should, and shouldn’t, revoke citizenship
- Analysis
- September 30, 2015
The long federal election campaign has been knocked off course at various stages by the unexpected: revelations from the Duffy trial; the accelerating Syrian refugee crisis; the niqab issue in citizenship ceremonies; and now, courtesy of Monday night’s Munk debate on foreign policy, the issue of the revocation of Canadian citizenship. That issue, introduced by
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