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| quote: | Originally posted by Jayx1
you are so far off base with this its not even funny.
ill respond more when i have time |
lol, oh really? based on your original comments I'm not surprised with your obvious disagreement...I don't really care to hear your ultra right wing we are canada here us roar response. i'm actually not off base, read some international publications, pick up the economist from time to time, talk to an academic here and there. a self-righteous "let's stand up for our values" argument when we're not even fucking standing up for anything and merely just making excuses to hide something as simple as very very very very poor diplomacy, across many many events is a mentality that is SO detrimental for our country moving forward. come on man.
Here's one for you:
| quote: | Canada's foreign policy:
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Better at doughnuts than diplomacy
Oct 14th 2010 | Ottawa
IN 2003 Bono, a rock star and poverty campaigner, proclaimed that “The world needs more Canada”. This week, the world decided it didn’t. On October 12th Canada lost its bid for a rotating seat on the United Nations Security Council, for the first time since the organisation was founded in 1945. That Germany was preferred was acceptable; not so, being passed over in favour of Portugal. Stephen Harper’s Conservative government blamed the opposition leader, Michael Ignatieff, for the snub, because he had suggested that Canada did not deserve the seat. But many countries apparently share Mr Ignatieff’s dislike of Mr Harper’s foreign policy. This has featured outspoken support of Israel’s hardline government, alienating the Muslim countries that make up a third of the UN’s membership. Mr Harper has also made few friends in Africa (where he has closed embassies), or in Europe and among island states (with his feeble policy on climate change). He came to power in 2006 sceptical of Canada’s traditional multilateralism (“a weak-nation strategy”, he said) and of the UN itself. Last year he raised eyebrows by choosing to inaugurate a doughnut-innovation centre rather than attend the UN General Assembly. His country’s commitment to UN peacekeeping missions, for which a former Liberal prime minister once won a Nobel prize, declined sharply under the previous government and has not increased under Mr Harper. So why bother to seek a Security Council seat? The Conservatives seem now to realise that strong links to the United States are no longer enough in a changing world. Canada is still a big UN paymaster. As host of the G8 summit this year, it pushed for more aid for maternal and child health in poor countries. But its overtures to China and India came too late to sway the vote. The snub has handed Mr Harper’s opponents a club with which to beat him. Jean Chrétien, a former Liberal prime minister, noted acidly that “In Canada, we have to realise that what you do has consequences.” Pollsters say the public attach little importance to a UN seat. But this was supposed to be a year in which Canada would figure large on the world stage. It started with the winter Olympics in Vancouver and the economy’s swift recovery from recession, and continued with hosting the G8 and G20 summits. It seems to have ended early.
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Better at donuts than diplomacy? Are you kidding me? This is the most unbiased and respected commentary on social, political, and economic events currently happening in our world today, read by anyone intelligent enough to actually understand the scope of the issues discussed, and this is how we're portrayed to that crowd?
You're really going to play that 'stand up for our values' card when even The Economist is bashing us?? So,The Economist is off base? Lol, have fun defending that one dude.
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Last edited by slingshot on Nov-09-2010 at 06:06
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