Canada Pulls More than its Weight in NATO

• October 25, 2011

Published in the Ottawa Citizen,October 25, 2011

For much of NATO’s history, the term “burden-sharing” sent Canadian officials scrambling for cover. Coined during the long standoff with the Soviet Union, the term encapsulated a complex debate over who was, and …

Virtue or Vice? Human Rights Diplomacy under the Tory Government

• October 14, 2011

Foreign Minister John Baird’s speech to the UN General Assembly in September was widely reported for the forceful manner in which he condemned the Palestinians’ ’unilateral’ bid for UN membership. Largely unremarked upon, however, was the Minister’s emphasis on human …