Real Women Attack on Baird a Lesson for Multicultural Canada

• 9 août 2013

Published in the Toronto Star, August 8, 2013

Just for a change of pace, here’s a news story you did not read about this week:

“A collective statement by traditionalist Sikh, Muslim and Jewish groups attacking Foreign Affairs Minister …

A Response to Deepak Ohbrai on Digital Diplomacy

• 14 juillet 2013

I am pleased that Deepak Ohbrai, Parliamentary Secretary to the Minister of Foreign Affairs, has responded to my recent writing on Canada’s lackluster approach to digital diplomacy. He highlights Ottawa’s support for the Global Dialogue on the Future of Iran…

The Digital Diplomacy Revolution: Why Is Canada Lagging Behind?

• 20 juin 2013

From the Canadian Defence and Foreign Affairs Institute:

A new report by Roland Paris, CDFAI Senior Fellow and Director of the Centre for International Policy Studies at the University of Ottawa, examines the burgeoning world of digital diplomacy and concludes …

Canada’s Brave New World of Digital Diplomacy

• 18 juin 2013

Is it diplomacy, propaganda or subversion? There’s a question of naming going on these days in Canadian diplomacy, amid our government’s high-profile feud with Iran. It starts from a seemingly minor venture that opens up into something quite major: the …

Does Canadian Diplomacy Need an Office of Religious Engagement?

• 12 juin 2013

Published in the Toronto Star, June 10, 2013

Depending on your view of Canada’s recently opened Office of Religious Freedom, you may or may not welcome the likelihood that a related idea from the U.S. State Department will be …

Harper Government ‘Pandering to Diasporas’? Not So Fast, Pundits

• 8 mai 2013

It’s looking likely that Prime Minister Harper will boycott the Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting to be held in Sri Lanka this November, due to that country’s deteriorating human rights and governance record. If so, Canada may be alone among …

Jason Kenney: Canada’s Other (and Soon to be Only?) Foreign Minister

• 6 mai 2013

The overseas trips of Foreign Minister Baird generate some attention and controversy. But Baird’s foreign travel is closely rivaled by—though less reported on than—that of his Cabinet colleague Jason Kenney, the Minister for Citizenship and Immigration. In only the first …

Does the World Exist (in Canada’s Foreign Policy)?

• 23 avril 2013

Published in the Toronto Star, April 22, 2013

Rarely do questions of metaphysics, epistemology and foreign policy intersect. The past seven years of foreign policy under Prime Minister Harper and his various foreign ministers, however, suggest that the government …

Canada’s Diplomatic Tantrum in the Desert

• 18 avril 2013

Published in iPolitics, April 9, 2013

A little more than two weeks ago, Canada became the only nation on the planet to walk away from the UN Convention to Combat Desertification.

The decision to withdraw — making Canada the …