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Procurement of Arctic/Offshore Patrol Ships Contains Titanic Blunder, Report Finds
April 11, 2013
A new report examining the government’s plans to build Arctic/Offshore Patrol Ships has just been released by the Rideau Institute and the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives.
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Op-ed: Passing the buck on search-and-rescue
March 22, 2013
Michael Byers and Stewart Webb The National Post March 20, 2013 Nobody likes a buck-passer. But that’s what Defence Minister Peter MacKay resembled last week, when asked about the seven-year delay in replacing Canada’s ancient fleet of fixed-wing search-and-rescue aircraft. “I will express to you … no small degree of frustration that we have not […]
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Staples on Canadian-Libyan trade push
March 19, 2013
Newly released documents show that the Conservative government launched a trade push just before the end of the war in Libya in 2011 “to ensure a return on our engagement and investment,” Lee Berthiaume reported this week (“Canada made trade push as Gadhafi fled,” Ottawa Citizen, March 19, 2013). The documents have raised old questions […]
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Staples on panel, “Does conservative foreign policy need an overhaul?”
March 12, 2013
Steven Staples participated in the panel, “Does conservative foreign policy need an overhaul?,” at the Manning Networking Conference on Friday, March 8. Staples provided a counterbalance to many of the other panelists views. The discussion was summarized by iPolitics (Michelle Zilio, “Does the Harper government have a foreign policy plan?,” March 8, 2013): Panelists at […]
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