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Military Deployments and a ‘Political Convention’ of Commons Support
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- March 24, 2015
by Philippe Lagassé Published on Policy Options, March 24, 2015 Prime Minister Harper has presented a motion to the House of Commons announcing an extension and expansion of Canada’s mission against the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL). Despite what is being reported in various media outlets (the CBC excepted), the motion isn’t
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China’s Domino Tactics Boost Infrastructure Bank
- Analysis
- March 22, 2015
China is looking ever the experienced super-power. In a week it has scooped up all the important European dominos, humiliating a U.S. government which has lobbied hard to block the launch of China’s new $50b Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank (AIIB). The dominos have fallen quickly. Last week it was the UK’s turn to join, preferring
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How Dangerous is C-51? You Might Be Surprised
- Analysis
- March 22, 2015
by Michael Geist Published in the Toronto Star, March 13, 2015 As witnesses line up to warn about the dangers associated with Bill C-51, Canada’s anti-terrorism bill, it’s increasingly clear that the proposed legislation is an unprecedented undermining of Canadian privacy protection. Much of the focus on the bill has related to oversight: the government
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Intellectual Property, Industrial Espionage and the Future of Military Diffusion
- Analysis
- March 19, 2015
By Robert Farley, Patterson School of Diplomacy and International Commerce, University of Kentucky What do intellectual property law, industrial espionage, and cyber-warfare have to do with one another? Industrial espionage is, by definition, a violation of most existing schemes of intellectual property law. In the 19th and 20th centuries, governments actively practiced industrial espionage, dispatching
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