• Canada Would Be Foolish Not to Join the TPP

    A few days ago, cows and their owners were marching in front of Parliament in Ottawa. They were protesting against the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP), which, they argued, would cause the demise of the dairy industry’s supply management regime. Last week, it was Unifor’s (the largest private sector union in Canada) turn to manifest its concerns

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  • Making Peace in a Divided World: New Roles for the United Nations?

    © Crown Copyright 2013 By Richard Gowan There is no more annoying phrase in discussions of international affairs than “If the United Nations did not exist, we would have to invent it!” It is certainly true that the world urgently needs an effective collective security organization today. But the organization it needs bears only a

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  • Transition Memos Show Foreign Ministry Is Doing Its Job

    A series of foreign ministry memos, leaked to the media in recent days, offer an unflattering assessment of Canada’s declining international influence and reputation. They are apparently draft « transition » documents, which the federal bureaucracy prepares before every election. Some defenders of the Conservative government quickly took to social media and assailed the Department of Foreign

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  • When We Should, and Shouldn’t, Revoke Citizenship

    The long federal election campaign has been knocked off course at various stages by the unexpected: revelations from the Duffy trial; the accelerating Syrian refugee crisis; the niqab issue in citizenship ceremonies; and now, courtesy of Monday night’s Munk debate on foreign policy, the issue of the revocation of Canadian citizenship. That issue, introduced by

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