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Shining Light on Harper’s Darkling Mideast Outlook
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- December 12, 2013
When a private citizen holds a world view filled with forces of light and darkness, with heroes and villains and mystical bonds tying fates together, that’s generally her own business. When that person is the Prime Minister of Canada, however, and that world view bears on the nation’s foreign policy, it’s of wider public interest.
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Stephen Harper and a ‘Rising’ Canada
- Analysis
- 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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