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World leaders at upcoming UN General Assembly must heed call for renewed nuclear diplomacy
September 15, 2019
The gathering of world leaders at the UN General Assembly later in September offers an unprecedented opportunity for Prime Minister Trudeau to demonstrate how Canada will contribute to a new global diplomatic effort to reduce nuclear dangers.
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Trudeau plays cynical waiting game while children die in Yemen
November 20, 2018
In February 2018 Foreign Minister Chrystia Freeland addressed the Human Rights Council in Geneva. She stated: Few issues are as important as those that relate to human rights and freedoms…. We are also in a time in which international humanitarian law has been dangerously challenged. Civilians are being slaughtered and have been the targets of ongoing attacks in […]
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Civil Society Letter on Bill C-47: Canada must do better
April 16, 2018
Rideau Institute President Peggy Mason and Group of 78 Chair Roy Culpeper sent a joint letter on behalf of their respective non-governmental organizations to Foreign Minister Chrystia Freeland in light of recent changes to Bill C-47, the legislation to enable Canada to accede to the landmark Arms Trade Treaty. First they highlighted the good news: “We would […]
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Bill C-47 leaves majority of Canada’s military exports unregulated
March 5, 2018
In her address to the Geneva Conference on Disarmament on 28 February last, Foreign Minister Chrystia Freeland discussed Bill C-47, Canada’s legislation for accession to the Arms Trade Treaty: Canadians are rightly concerned about how arms could be used to perpetuate regional and international conflicts in which civilians have suffered and lost their lives. We […]
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