Baird’s East Jerusalem scandal shows Canada has a Mideast dishonesty gap
Globe and Mail Why is Foreign Minister John Baird misrepresenting Canada’s policies on the Mideast? Last week, Mr. Baird met with...
Baird's Silence on Abuses in Bahrain Exposes Canada's Inconsistency
Globe & Mail The government of Prime Minister Stephen Harper prides itself on having a “principled” foreign policy and for taking...
CIDA Merger is Fine, But Fundamental Questions of Policy Remain Unresolved
Globe & Mail Thursday’s announcement that the Canadian International Development Agency will be folded into the Department of Foreign...
Staying out of Iraq was said to hurt Canada’s standing. It didn’t
Globe and Mail In the weeks leading up to the disastrous invasion of Iraq a decade ago, a number of prominent Canadian commentators and...
A Not-So-New Foreign Policy Plan
The Harper government’s “secret” foreign policy plan, revealed by the CBC today, offers few surprises. Its emphasis on pursuing economic...
Canada gives cold shoulder to the UN
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John Baird: The Next Minister of National Defence?
I don’t normally follow Canadian politics closely enough to play the parlour game of predicting the winners and losers of the next...
Is Corruption the Cost of Saving Afghanistan?
Globe & Mail It was fitting that last weekend’s international donors’ conference on Afghanistan took place in Tokyo: The event...
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...
The Engaged Academic: Why the Old Ivory Tower Won’t Stand
The latest issue of the journal Perspectives on Politics, published by Cambridge University Press, includes an important article by Lisa...