Former Canadian diplomat Daryl Copeland laments the Canadian government’s retreat from an internationalist foreign policy (Daryl Copeland, “A retreat from the world stage,” Ottawa Citizen, …
Canadian foreign policy
Talks collapse in Bahrain
Bahrain, a Persian Gulf nation that has been the site of pro-democracy protests over recent months, is entering a new, uncertain phase after the collapse …
Canada makes the wrong move at Conference on Disarmament
Cesar Jaramillo, program officer at Project Ploughshares, argues against the recent decision to boycott the UN Conference on Disarmament (Cesar Jaramillo, “Canada’s disarmament conference boycott …
Principled PM to sell more LAVs to dictators?
Prime Minister Stephen Harper treated Canadians to a self-righteous description of his government’s “principled” foreign policy stance at the recent Conservative Party convention (Steven Chase, …
New foreign policy website launched
Collaboration among civil society actors has been a key ingredient in numerous foreign policy achievements in Canada, including the Ottawa Treaty banning landmines and the …
Liberals release election platform
The Liberal Party released its latest “Red Book”, its election platform document, on April 3rd (Your Family. Your Future. Your Canada, Liberal Party of Canada, …