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The 800-Pound Panda in Obama’s Asia Speech
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- November 17, 2011
This post first appeared on the CIC’s Roundtable blog at opencanada.org. Sometimes, the most interesting part of a political speech isn’t what is said, but what’s not said. On Thursday, President Barack Obama delivered an address to Australia’s Parliament in which he set out the rationale and priorities of the U.S. policy shift towards the Asia
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UNDRIP: The Wrong Basis for Canada’s International Indigenous Agenda
- Analysis
- November 17, 2011
Scott’s Simon recent blogpost on Canada and the U.N. Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Persons got a central message right: the importance of Canada playing a strong role abroad in promoting indigenous rights and indigenous issues. And he’s right on two more points: in suggesting that the role is there for Canada to play,
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Harper and Obama at APEC: A New Focus on Asia or a Closer Canada-U.S. Relationship?
- Analysis
- November 17, 2011
Was the Prime Minister’s statement at the APEC Summit of Canada’s interest in joining the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) negotiations a sign of a new export strategy focused on Asia or a move away from our close trading relationship with the United States in response to the delay of the regulatory approval of the Keystone pipeline?
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Honing Canada’s Approach to Interventions
- Analysis
- November 16, 2011
By Roméo Dallaire and Philippe Lagassé Published in Embassy Magazine, November 16, 2011. Canada and its NATO allies performed admirably during their recent intervention in Libya. They acted to prevent a predatory regime from potentially committing a mass atrocity; they addressed a challenge before it became an unmitigated crisis. Although a peaceful transition to a
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