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A Headhunter’s Nightmare at Canada’s Office of Religious Freedom
- Analysis
- February 18, 2013
Published in the Toronto Star, February 18, 2013 Despite the recent papal drama in Rome, the Catholic Church isn’t the only religion-focused body with prominent personnel troubles. In Ottawa, the Harper government has spent the last year dealing with a leadership vacuum of its own as it struggled to find a suitable ambassador to lead
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Rapid Nuclear Proliferation Simply Doesn’t Happen
- Analysis
- February 18, 2013
Published in the Globe and Mail, February 18, 2013 Among the many reasons why Iran should not acquire nuclear weapons (a sentiment with which any reasonable person must agree), one hears the argument that it would initiate a cascade of proliferation across the Middle East. First Saudi Arabia, then Turkey, then Egypt, then God knows
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Canada Should Play the Royal Card Against Sri Lanka’s Government
- Analysis
- February 15, 2013
Commonwealth Secretary-General Kamalesh Sharma ended his visit to Sri Lanka this week by confirming that the next biennial Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting (CHOGM) will go ahead as planned in the country later this year. Given that the Sri Lankan government has taken no serious steps towards promised human rights and political reforms—and has in
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‘Canada First’ Military Spending a Surrender to Bad Policy
- Analysis
- February 14, 2013
Published in the Globe and Mail, February 14, 2013 We have in this country a federal government that increasingly is engaged in trying to determine which business, which regions, which industries will succeed, and which will not, through a whole range of economic development, regional development corporate subsidization programs. I believe that in the next
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