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There Is More to Foreign Policy than Trade 0
- Analysis
- November 28, 2013
The problem with Canada’s new Global Markets Action Plan is not that it seeks to promote Canadian commercial interests in foreign markets where our companies have the potential to succeed. No, the problem is that this strategy now looms over …
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Iran is a Process. Pay Attention, Canada 0
- Analysis
- November 28, 2013
The interim Iranian nuclear deal is just that: interim. It is not the final word on the Iranian nuclear problem; it buys time for a permanent solution to be negotiated.

Iran has agreed to temporarily constrain its nuclear program in …
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Canada Must Hold Firm in Opposing US Efforts to Expand Intellectual Property Rights 0
- Analysis
- November 27, 2013
Our federal government seems hell-bent on signing as many new free trade and investment treaties as possible. We just completed one ‘in principle’ with the European Union (the Comprehensive Economic and Trade Agreement, or CETA); we finalized one with Honduras …
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Two Tweets on Iran That Speak Volumes About Ottawa 0
- Analysis
- November 26, 2013
Published in the Toronto Star, November 25, 2013

As months of negotiations between the “P5+1” world powers and Iran concluded on Saturday night with the announcement of a deal struck in Geneva, Canada’s role at this historic moment was …
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As Iran Opens to the World, Canada is Left Behind 0
- Analysis
- November 25, 2013
by John Mundy

Published in The Globe and Mail, November 25, 2013

The earth moved Sunday in Geneva when the United States, its P5 plus 1 negotiating partners and Iran came to an interim agreement on Iran’s nuclear program. …
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To Shun or Shake Hands? Assessing Harper’s CHOGM Boycott 0
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- November 18, 2013
Prime Minister Harper’s decision to boycott the Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting (CHOGM), which concluded on the weekend in Sri Lanka, was hotly debated over the past few weeks. Now that the meeting has ended, what impact has the boycott …
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Sexy Vanilla: Canada-EU Free Trade 0
- Analysis
- November 14, 2013
by Robert Hage

The same week that celebrity British street artist Banksy upset New Yorkers by saying the new World Trade Center is “vanilla…and looks like something they would build in Canada”, an Economist headline stated, “Canada doesn’t get any …
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Canadian Foreign Policy for Dummies 0
- Analysis
- November 12, 2013
Published in the Toronto Star, November 11, 2013

So it’s come to this: not only are Canadian citizens being dumbed-down by political parties who treat them as narrow-minded consumerist taxpayers, but now the leading lights of Canada’s journalism establishment …
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Rights to What Purpose? Free Speech and the U.S. Gun Control Debate 0
- Analysis
- November 12, 2013
This past week saw a fascinating moment in the debate over guns and constitutional rights that so scars America. The cause was a gentleman named Richard (‘Dick’) Metcalf. A ‘pro gun’ advocate and lobbyist, Metcalf has written op-eds and articles …
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As Nuclear Talks Progress, Baird’s Concern for Human Rights in Iran Rings Hollow 0
- Analysis
- November 10, 2013
Negotiations over the past three days in Geneva almost achieved a historic nuclear deal with Iran, and the parties’ concluding statements suggest there is a good chance a deal will be reached when talks resume on November 20.

Canada, however, …
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Missing in Action: What Happened to Canada’s Foreign Policy?0
- Analysis
- October 31, 2013
In July 2011, shortly after Canadian voters handed the Conservatives a majority government, Prime Minister Stephen Harper observed that “since becoming prime minister…the thing that’s probably struck me the most in terms of my previous expectations—I don’t even know what …
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Protecting Whom? Certainly Not Refugees or Canada’s Reputation for Justice 0
- Analysis
- October 31, 2013
By Emma Kenyon and Patti Tamara Lenard

The Throne Speech has come and gone, and buried in the hoopla surrounding the demise of cable television bundling were some terrifically misleading claims about “progress” towards meeting Canada’s immigration priorities.

The government …
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