Archive » Tag: Prime Minister Justin Trudeau
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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Let’s make it clear to Saudi Arabia that bullying will not work
August 14, 2018
The RideauInstitute.ca is on a short summer break, back next Friday 24 August. However, in the meantime, why not show your support to Prime Minister Justin Trudeau for standing up to the Saudi Arabian bully boy, Crown Prince Mohammed Bin Salman, by sending an email to: Prime Minister Justin Trudeau at: pm@pm.gc.ca Foreign Minister Chrystia […]
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NATO leaders should champion nuclear restraint and dialogue
July 9, 2018
Presidents Reagan and Gorbachev at 1987 Washington Summit Our previous blog called on Prime Minister Trudeau to resist Trump’s bullying over yet more defence spending and to ensure that the Final Communiqué from NATO leaders contains no support for American proposals to lower the threshold for first use of nuclear weapons. See: Trudeau must hold […]
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Justin Trudeau must face up to Afghan detainee torture allegations
January 10, 2018
We believe this is unfinished business of the most serious kind — accountability for alleged complicity in torture — the only appropriate remedy for which is a public inquiry. – Peggy Mason In September 2015, in the midst of the federal election campaign, the Rideau Institute released a report — Torture of Afghan Detainees: Canada’s […]
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