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Time for a ‘Grand Bargain’ in a Foreign Policy Review
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- January 21, 2012
Officials are grinding away at a foreign policy review in the Lester B. Pearson building in Ottawa, although the motives appear unclear and the parameters are not yet public. But the time is right, since the Harper Government’s majority in Parliament gives it considerable freedom of maneuver. Other factors weigh in the same direction. DFAIT
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Putting the Corporate Back Into CSR: A Rejoinder to Natalie Brender
- Analysis
- January 20, 2012
In a blog post yesterday, my colleague Natalie Brender rejected a recent Ottawa Citizen column’s condemnations of the use of CIDA funds to subsidize Canadian mining companies’ corporate social responsibility (CSR) projects in mining-affected communities in developing countries. The crux of Natalie’s objections is as follows: “[A]s for the notion that damage-mitigating projects should be
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CSR Funding is the Least of CIDA’s Woes
- Analysis
- January 19, 2012
A column in today’s Ottawa Citizen describes new levels of politicization, ineffectiveness and obfuscation at the Canadian International Development Agency (CIDA). None of this is particularly surprising, since that agency’s misfortunes—largely due to its successive political masters—have been well-known for more than a decade. But some of the article’s criticism is misplaced. In particular, the
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Libya Intervention of 2011: A Victory With Asterisks
- Analysis
- January 10, 2012
This article first appeared in the Winter 2011 issue of the Canadian Defence and Foreign Affairs Institute Quarterly Review. The grotesque display of Muammar Qaddafi’s bloodied corpse in Sirte, Libya, where he was captured and killed, and later in a Misrata meat locker, did little to build confidence in the commitment of Libya’s rebels to
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