Archive » Tag: Canadian Export and Import Permits Act
Senate report chooses human rights over weapons exports
September 10, 2018
On 4 September the Rideauinstitute.ca blog discussed key pieces of legislation upcoming in the Senate, including in particular Bill C-47, on Canada’s arms export policy, and highlighted the key role that civil society can and must play in strengthening it. For this vital effort, civil society has received an enormous boost in the form of the June […]
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Canada at a crossroads with its arms export policy
May 28, 2018
Professor Paul Rogers of Bradford University focuses his latest commentary on the power and pervasiveness of the “military-industrial-academic-bureaucratic complex”: At the core of the complex is a largely self-sustaining system demonstrating a high degree of integration between manufacturers, the military and political leaderships, all benefiting from security policies predicated on the potential and actual use […]
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