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Harper to meet with Dr. Polanyi, others, on eve of historic nuclear summit in Washington
April 8, 2010
On Friday afternoon, April 9, 2010, at 3:00 p.m. Canadian Nobel Laureate John Polanyi, along with Senator Douglas Roche (ret.) and Murray Thomson will meet with Prime Minister Harper to discuss President Obama’s summit and Canada’s position on nuclear disarmament.
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Engage Canadian Public on Future of NATO
March 24, 2010
Today, the Rideau Institute released a discussion paper on the NATO Strategic Concept, suggesting that the alliance should shelve its expansion plans, avoid future “out-of-area” operations such as Afghanistan, and end its reliance upon nuclear weapons as an “essential” part of its security.
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Let’s get nuclear weapons out of the Arctic
March 17, 2010
Steven Staples and Michael Wallace in Embassy on nuclear weapons in the Arctic.
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Budget 2010 Commentary on Military Spending: Up is down?
March 5, 2010
The new federal budget commits the Harper government to going ahead with its planned increases in military spending in both the coming year (fiscal year 2010-11) and the next, after which, Finance Minister Jim Flaherty says, the size of planned increases in military spending will be reduced for two years. The military budget is then projected to resume the upward track promised in the Harper government’s so-called Canada First Defence Strategy.
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