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Killing CIDA: The Wrong Solution to Real Problems
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- March 25, 2013
Many supporters of DFAIT’s recently announced takeover of CIDA are invoking spurious arguments. More fundamentally, most commentators are missing the crucial point that this new arrangement will do little or nothing to fix the actual problems with Canadian foreign aid. In fact, it is likely to make them worse. Many proponents of the merger actually
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Iran’s Nuclear Gamble, Canada and Obama’s Second Term
- Analysis
- March 22, 2013
CIPS Policy Brief No. 21, March 2013. By JOHN MUNDY, Visiting Associate, CIPS. War with Iran is closer than we may think, but is not inevitable. If war with Iran does occur, the likely tactical victory of the U.S. (and other supporting countries) will come with a larger political and strategic defeat due to the
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CIDA Merger is Fine, but Fundamental Questions of Policy Remain Unresolved
- Analysis
- March 22, 2013
Published in the Globe and Mail, March 22, 2013 Thursday’s announcement that the Canadian International Development Agency will be folded into the Department of Foreign Affairs and International Trade leaves critical questions about Canada’s aid policy unanswered. First, regardless of whether aid policy is run from CIDA or a new mega-ministry, will our development spending
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The Right Call on the Wrong War
- Analysis
- March 19, 2013
Published in Opencanada.org, March 19, 2013 In the weeks leading up to the disastrous invasion of Iraq a decade ago, a number of prominent Canadian commentators and political figures warned of dire consequences to Canada-U.S. relations if this country failed to join the American-led coalition. As it turned out, however, the U.S. administration quickly got
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