Archive » Tag: Foreign Minister Stephane Dion
Majority of Canadians say NO to selling arms to despots
July 14, 2016
A new poll by NANOS Research shows a strong majority of Canadians oppose selling military goods to Saudi Arabia, China, and Algeria, countries in the top ten buyers of defence and security gear from Canada, but with dismal human rights records. Saudi Arabia, as we have reported many times over, consistently ranks among the “worst […]
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Chris Westdal: Now is the time for diplomacy with Russia
July 12, 2016
We wrote about Canada’s ill-advised decision to establish and lead a rotational multinational NATO battlegroup in Latvia in our blog post of 30 June entitled Trudeau government: Room for improvement on key security issues. In that post we noted how the German Foreign Minister has variously described NATO’s actions in deploying four battlegroups on Russia’s […]
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Trudeau government: Room for improvement on key security issues
July 5, 2016
As we finish our Canada Day celebrations and the first long weekend of summer, it is a fitting time to provide a mid-term evaluation of some of the issues we have been tracking over the last few months. Arms Trade Treaty First the good news: Foreign Minister Dion announced June 30th, that on June 17th […]
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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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