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There Is More to Foreign Policy than Trade
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- November 28, 2013
The problem with Canada’s new Global Markets Action Plan is not that it seeks to promote Canadian commercial interests in foreign markets where our companies have the potential to succeed. No, the problem is that this strategy now looms over the rest of Canada’s foreign policy, which has largely withered during the years that the
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Iran is a Process. Pay Attention, Canada
- Analysis
- November 28, 2013
The interim Iranian nuclear deal is just that: interim. It is not the final word on the Iranian nuclear problem; it buys time for a permanent solution to be negotiated. Iran has agreed to temporarily constrain its nuclear program in various ways and to accept more stringent international verification, but it has not accepted any
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Canada Must Hold Firm in Opposing US Efforts to Expand Intellectual Property Rights
- Analysis
- 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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