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Stephen Harper and a ‘Rising’ Canada
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- December 12, 2013
By Colin Robertson, Vice President, Canadian Defence and Foreign Affairs Institute Stephen Harper aims to position Canada as a ‘rising power’. While protecting our privileged access to the USA, Canada under Harper’s leadership actively seeks new markets for our goods and resources. It draws on our pluralistic population with family entrees to every nation on
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Baird’s Tough Talk on Human Rights Rings Hollow in Bahrain
- Analysis
- December 10, 2013
Canada’s “principled” foreign policy keeps running into problems in Bahrain, the Gulf monarchy that violently suppressed pro-democracy protests in 2011. When Foreign Minister John Baird visited the country in April, he made no public comment about Bahrain’s repressive practices, including the regime’s continued incarceration of democracy activists. His silence was troubling, not least because the
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A Failure to Protect: Canada’s Shameful Response to the Syrian Refugee Crisis
- Analysis
- December 9, 2013
By Emma Kenyon and Patti Tamara Lenard The Canadian government’s response to the Syria refugee crisis is pathetic. In the face of what some are calling the worst refugee crisis in a generation—in 2013 the number of registered Syrian refugees grew to 2.2 million, and tens of thousands are waiting to be registered—the Canadian government
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Time to Stand Up for Democracy and Human Rights in Ukraine
- Analysis
- December 9, 2013
These days, it is hard to imagine that a decision concerning the European Union can spark a riot. To the majority of EU citizens, the idea of taking to the barricades to support Brussels would seem absurd. The union, seriously weakened by the recent economic crisis, battling austerity and unemployment and plagued by self-doubt, appears
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