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Is Afghanistan a Model for our anti-ISIL Mission?
February 19, 2016
Afghan National Army soldiers at a graduation parade at the Kabul Military Training CentreCanada in Afghanistan: A Role Model for Canada’s Middle East Mission, by Nipa Banerjee, visiting professor at the University of Ottawa Graduate School of Public and International Affairs and Senior Advisor at the Rideau Institute, was originally posted on the Centre for […]
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Mason: Let’s leave this ill-considered military mission altogether
February 9, 2016
On February 8th the Liberal government revealed its new plan for the role Canada will play in the coalition against Islamic State. President of the Rideau Institute, Peggy Mason, was invited by The Citizen to provide an analysis of the new plan. The resulting commentary is reproduced in its entirety below. The U.S.-led coalition against […]
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More useful role for Canada than air strikes says RI President
January 13, 2016
The Prime Minister of Canada must live up to the promise he made during the election campaign, and which he included in the mandate letter to his Minister of Defence, and forthwith end Canadian air strikes in Iraq and Syria. Despite this unequivocal commitment, reiterated by the PM to the President of the United States in their […]
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Trudeau must have the courage of his convictions
November 17, 2015
Despite Paris’ misery, Trudeau mustn’t fall into Harper’s old traps (Michael Harris, iPolitics, 15 November 2015). In the wake of the horrific attacks in Paris, the Canadian neocons are out in full force, baying for Prime Minister Trudeau to renege on his promise to withdraw Canada from the bombing mission in Iraq and Syria. But […]
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