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The Queen is the Canadian Crown
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- January 10, 2012
by Philippe Lagassé The full article was published in the Ottawa Citizen on January 9, 2012 Should Canada abandon its constitutional monarchy and become a republic? Several commentators and notable politicians think so. Accustomed to seeing the monarchy as a quaint symbol of Canada’s colonial past, many Canadians have been irked by the Conservatives’ blunt
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Canadians Can Help Stop the Persecution of Iran’s Baha’i
- Analysis
- January 9, 2012
By Allan Rock and Lloyd Axworthy With the eyes of the world on the Arab Spring, the populist struggles in Iran have faded from view. Yet some in Iran continue to face appalling levels of abuse, oppression, and injustice. The hopes for reform in Iran that were raised in June 2009 have proven empty, while
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The Total Surveillance Society Approaches
- Analysis
- December 22, 2011
This commentary appeared in the Ottawa Citizen on December 22, 2011. We will soon reach the point where governments will have the capacity, should they wish it, to monitor, record, and permanently archive the communications and activities of their citizens from birth to death. That’s the sobering message of a new Brookings Institution report by
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What Contracting Out Security Says About the Canadian Foreign Service
- Analysis
- December 21, 2011
A small article in several newspapers this month carried an item noting that the Department of Foreign Affairs and International Trade had solicited bids for threat assessments in 174 countries. The assessments would canvass possible threats to Canada’s missions abroad under a variety of categories, including crime, terrorism and natural disasters. The successful bidder stands
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