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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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