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Are Canadians Still Liberal Internationalists?
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- September 25, 2014
I recently wrote in the Globe and Mail that we shouldn’t expect to see a warming in Canada’s relations with the United Nations, which have been chilly since the Harper government failed to win a seat for Canada on the Security Council in 2010. In that article, I mentioned that I’d done some research into the
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Canada’s Decade of Diplomatic Darkness
- Analysis
- September 24, 2014
Published in the Globe and Mail, Sept. 24, 2014 When Prime Minister Stephen Harper addresses the United Nations General Assembly on Thursday, observers should not expect a warming in Canada’s attitude toward the world body. Since Mr. Harper failed to win Canada a Security Council seat in 2010, he and his ministers have derided the
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The Outcome of the Scottish Independence Referendum
- Analysis
- September 23, 2014
55 percent for ‘no,’ 45 percent for ‘yes.’ It was simultaneously a very close result and a comfortable win for Better Together. The vote was close if we take a historical perspective on it. Support for independence in Scotland has typically hovered around 25 percent. A year ago it seemed stuck 35-40 percent, and many
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Harper Goes to the UN for Domestic Consumption in 2015
- Analysis
- September 22, 2014
Published on National Newswatch, September 22, 2014 In the week of September 22, 2014, Stephen Harper will address the UN General Assembly, the global forum that not only he has shunned in his almost nine years of office but also one that his Foreign Minister, John Baird, has so infamously dismissed as a debating club
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