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John Baird’s Journey
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- September 24, 2012
In a speech last week to the Montreal Council on Foreign Relations, Foreign Minister John Baird set out the priority he attaches to human rights in Canadian foreign policy. That Minister Baird prioritizes human rights is hardly new: his speeches and public statements repeat, mantra-like, the Harper government’s commitment to defend and promote “freedom, human
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Foreign Aid: More of the Same?
- Analysis
- September 21, 2012
Published in Embassy Magazine, September 19, 2012 Canada’s contributions to reducing global poverty are rarely a priority topic for debate in the House of Commons. Foreign aid is an important tool for supporting international development, but it will likely attract less attention now that controversial international co-operation minister Bev Oda has resigned. Sadly, in the
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Canada’s Abandonment of the Responsibility to Protect
- Analysis
- September 20, 2012
Guest contributor: KYLE MATTHEWS, Senior Deputy Director of the Will to Intervene Project at the Montreal Institute for Genocide and Human Rights Studies (Concordia University) The Responsibility to Protect doctrine has many enemies. States that will not or cannot stop mass atrocity crimes (genocide, crimes against humanity, war crimes and ethnic cleansing) within their borders
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Free Speech: A New Trigger for Global Crisis
- Analysis
- September 20, 2012
A different version of this essay was published in the Huffington Post, September 19, 2012. The hate-mongering film produced by an extremist anti-Muslim individual in the U.S. (who is also a convicted criminal) has triggered anti-U.S. violence around the world by hate-filled Muslim extremists. Among the tragic victims so far are four dead U.S. diplomats,
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