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Canada and the crisis in American democracy
January 8, 2022
Canada must prepare for the unimaginable – but increasingly likely – unraveling of American democracy. Our latest blog discusses steps we need to start taking now.
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New Canadian defence policy neither credible nor affordable
June 12, 2017
On June 7th, following a year-long policy review, Defence Minister Harjit Sajjan announced a staggering, not to mention completely unrealistic, $62 billion increase to military spending over the next twenty years. Though this is a clear capitulation to President Donald Trump’s demands for increased military spending by NATO members, the federal government has shrewdly framed […]
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Follow up to Open Letter on Afghan Detainee Transfers to Torture
June 10, 2016
Our June 8th blog post highlighted the Open Letter from 41 distinguished Canadians to Prime Minister Trudeau urging him to launch a Commission of Inquiry into Canada’s policies and practices relating to the transfer of hundreds of detainees to Afghan authorities during Canada’s military mission in that country despite the substantial risk of torture upon […]
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Open Letter to PM urging Public Inquiry on Afghan Detainee Transfers
June 8, 2016
Signed by 41 human rights experts, former and current parliamentarians and other eminent Canadians, an Open Letter to Prime Minister Justin Trudeau was just released by the Rideau Institute, further to their earlier report, entitled: Torture of Afghan Detainees: Canada’s Alleged Complicity and the Need for a Public Inquiry, (Omar Sabry, September, 2015, Rideau Institute […]
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