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Canada Must Hold Firm in Opposing US Efforts to Expand Intellectual Property Rights
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- November 27, 2013
Our federal government seems hell-bent on signing as many new free trade and investment treaties as possible. We just completed one ‘in principle’ with the European Union (the Comprehensive Economic and Trade Agreement, or CETA); we finalized one with Honduras (not exactly a current bastion of democracy); and we have half a dozen more underway.
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Two Tweets on Iran That Speak Volumes About Ottawa
- Analysis
- November 26, 2013
Published in the Toronto Star, November 25, 2013 As months of negotiations between the “P5+1” world powers and Iran concluded on Saturday night with the announcement of a deal struck in Geneva, Canada’s role at this historic moment was never in doubt. Having suspended diplomatic relations with Iran in 2012, and hurled a continual stream
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As Iran Opens to the World, Canada is Left Behind
- Analysis
- November 25, 2013
by John Mundy Published in The Globe and Mail, November 25, 2013 The earth moved Sunday in Geneva when the United States, its P5 plus 1 negotiating partners and Iran came to an interim agreement on Iran’s nuclear program. Only time will tell whether it is the start of a longer affair or just a
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To Shun or Shake Hands? Assessing Harper’s CHOGM Boycott
- Analysis
- November 18, 2013
Prime Minister Harper’s decision to boycott the Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting (CHOGM), which concluded on the weekend in Sri Lanka, was hotly debated over the past few weeks. Now that the meeting has ended, what impact has the boycott had? Did Harper’s boycott, alongside similar decisions by the Indian and Mauritian Prime Ministers, embarrass
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