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Kenney’s Reforms Make More Sense than his Rhetoric
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- July 14, 2012
Published in the Ottawa Citizen, July 14, 2012. If you were throwing an open house party, would you trash-talk the guests to your neighbours? Probably not. It’s strange, then, that even as the Harper government aims to sustain Canada’s economic growth by taking in some 260,000 newcomers in 2012, Citizenship and Immigration Minister Jason Kenney
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Is Corruption the Cost of Saving Afghanistan?
- Analysis
- July 12, 2012
Published in the Globe and Mail, July 11, 2012. It was fitting that last weekend’s international donors’ conference on Afghanistan took place in Tokyo: The event resembled the city’s famous kabuki theatre, with its ritualized drama of grand gestures and hidden meanings. The centrepiece of the meeting was a pledge by donors, including Canada, for
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The Future of Flying: A View from Farnborough
- Analysis
- July 11, 2012
All eyes are turning to the London Olympics—but for people in the aerospace industry, Britain’s biggest event this summer is the Farnborough International Airshow. At this event (the 48th iteration of the biannual show run by Britain’s defense and aerospace trade group, ADS), I mingled among tens of thousands of trade delegates. The global aerospace
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Bev Oda’s Real Legacy at CIDA
- Analysis
- July 10, 2012
Media commentary has been remarkably lenient regarding Bev Oda’s record at the end of her five-year stint as Canada’s Minister of International Cooperation. Coverage has by and large ignored how, under her watch, the government systematically undermined both the fundamental purpose of Canadian foreign aid, which is to fight poverty in developing countries, and the
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