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Checking Whose Reality? Contra Burney/Hampson on Canada’s Mideast Policy
- Analysis
- January 11, 2014
Writing last week in the Globe and Mail (“Canada and the Middle East – A reality check”), Derek Burney and Fen Hampson aim to “set the record straight” regarding the Harper government’s diplomacy in the Middle East. Their effort to defend that policy, however, bends facts and distorts the “reality” they claim needs checking. For
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Passports Are Powerful Tools
- Analysis
- January 10, 2014
In A Thousand Farewells, her memoir of covering civil unrest and war in the Middle East, Canadian reporter Nahlah Ayed writes about the striking reception her citizenship received in that region. The Winnipeg-born daughter of Palestinian immigrants, Ayed found it difficult to convince Arabs she met that being Canadian was a deeply substantive identity, not
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A Response to Derek Burney on Canada’s Foreign Policy
- Analysis
- January 3, 2014
A January 2nd op-ed in the Globe and Mail (republished in the CIPS Blog) on the current foreign policy of the Conservatives generated a lot of responses. Many were supportive, and others were quite critical. That is fine; debate is what the opinion pages of a newspaper is supposed to generate. One response struck me
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Why Did it Take So Long to (Sort of) Finalize the CETA?
- Analysis
- January 3, 2014
In the fall of 2013 the Government of Canada finally announced that it had finalized (sort of) an agreement with the European Union for a comprehensive trade and economic agreement. I say “sort of” since all that was released was a general overview of the agreement. While a number of questions still remain about the
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