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The High Price of Harper’s Foreign Policy
- Analysis
- April 14, 2013
Guest post by Bob Rae, MP John Baird’s recent trip to the Middle East—and seemingly incoherent announcements before and after—give us a chance to re-assess the Conservative government’s foreign policy. The Reform Party’s reverse takeover of the Progressive Conservative Party, and subsequent election as a minority government in 2006, meant that we had a government
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Let North Korea Test a Missile
- Analysis
- April 12, 2013
Published in the Globe and Mail, April 12, 2013 A curious dynamic has seized the world in the past week concerning the latest iteration of North Korea’s ongoing game of blackmail by brinkmanship. The North, a failed state by any definition, regularly trots out ridiculous threats against everyone around it – threats which would surely
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Going Along to Get Along: John Baird’s Mideast Tour
- Analysis
- April 5, 2013
Foreign Minister Baird’s seven-country, ten-day tour of the Middle East provides final confirmation that his much vaunted “principled” foreign policy committed to promoting “freedom, human rights, democracy and the rule of law” is little more than empty rhetoric. So far, the Foreign Minister has visited four Arab regimes (Jordan, Qatar, the United Arab Emirates (UAE)
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Baird’s Silence on Abuses in Bahrain Exposes Canada’s Inconsistency
- Analysis
- April 5, 2013
Published in the Globe and Mail, April 5, 2013 The government of Prime Minister Stephen Harper prides itself on having a “principled” foreign policy and for taking “clear positions” in the defence of human rights. Why, then, did Foreign Minister John Baird barely utter a peep in public about Bahrain’s terrible human rights record when
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