• Bev Oda’s Real Legacy at CIDA

    Bev Oda’s Real Legacy at CIDA

    Media commentary has been remarkably lenient regarding Bev Oda’s record at the end of her five-year stint as Canada’s Minister of International Cooperation. Coverage has by and large ignored how, under her watch, the government systematically undermined both the fundamental purpose of Canadian foreign aid, which is to fight poverty in developing countries, and the

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  • Towards an International Agreement on Syria?

    Towards an International Agreement on Syria?

    Following a long conversation between Presidents Obama and Putin at the recent G20 Summit in Mexico, U.S. officials claimed that progress had been made in identifying areas where U.S. and Russian interests coincide. “We agreed that we need to see a cessation of violence, that a political process has to be created to prevent civil

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  • Don’t Blame Obama for ‘Losing’ Canada

    Don’t Blame Obama for ‘Losing’ Canada

    Derek Burney and Fen Osler Hampson have well-deserved reputations as level-headed observers of Canada-U.S. relations. How, then, did they come to write an article so full of misjudgments on this subject? The article in question, “How Obama Lost Canada,” appeared on the website of Foreign Affairs magazine this week. As the title suggests, the authors

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  • Thoughts on the Future of Intelligence Accountability in Canada

    Thoughts on the Future of Intelligence Accountability in Canada

    The decision of the Harper government to close the Office of the Inspector General of CSIS and end its 28-year history opens a new and challenging chapter for the process of keeping watch over the Canadian security and intelligence community. It’s hard to be optimistic that this change will be for the better. The Government

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