Lesons from the Pandemic
Foreign Affairs Canada
Fri, 2021-03-05 02:37
#1
Foreign Affairs Canada
Fri, 2021-03-05 15:39
#2
Don Newman, now there is a real progressive commentator. He thanks you for spreading his imperial message. Did you even read this puff piece before you posted it or are you just spamming again.
Fri, 2021-03-05 16:42
#3
Newman recommends returning Meng to China and returning the Michaels to Canada. Sounds like a good solution to me.
Fri, 2021-03-05 19:58
#4
He did not offer a solution to the problem only that it should go away. The obvious solution is for the US government to admit these were Trumped up charges and withdraw the request. He did make it very clear who the good and the bad are in the world. Liberal democracies led by the US will be our salvation. We have Brazil and India on board with joining the Five Eyes in proving how just and righteous liberal democracies can be.
And Canada must raise its diplomatic profile, to strengthen its role in the struggle in what will be the most important international contest of the next 50 years. That is the struggle between liberal democracies led by the United States, and authoritarian-totalitarian states led by China. Ironically, to get in a position to play an important role in that ongoing struggle we will first have to accommodate China and disappoint the United States before we join Washington and our other natural allies in countering Beijing.
Fri, 2021-03-05 20:22
#5
I agree that most of the article was nonsense but I agree with the part that says "we will first have to accommodate China and disappoint the United States." I think all Canada has to do is follow international law.
Fri, 2021-03-05 21:17
#6
laine lowe
The whole thing was so stupid to begin with. Who cares about US sanctions against Iran? Does Canada have the same sanctions in place? It is a total mess that has just sprialed out of control.
Sat, 2021-03-06 20:47
#7
The sanctions are not UN based so they are basically illegal under international law. But Canada only follows the rule that says the US asks so we comply. This is just another matter that if Biden wanted too he could make it go away with a stroke of a pen.
As a Canadian I wonder how much of my money is being spent on lawyers to defend the government's decision to be a toady not a independent nation.
Sun, 2021-03-07 13:47
#8
What instrument of international law makes sanctions illegal? Article 2(4) of the UN charter only deals with the use of force.
Sun, 2021-03-07 17:20
#9
Personally I think all sanctions are a act of war when carried out by a single nation against another but that is an opinion. The UN as a body has a sanctions procedure in place and while I do not agree with sanctions for any reason at least it has a process supposedly.
The Security Council can take action to maintain or restore international peace and security under Chapter VII of the United Nations Charter. Sanctions measures, under Article 41, encompass a broad range of enforcement options that do not involve the use of armed force. Since 1966, the Security Council has established 30 sanctions regimes, in Southern Rhodesia, South Africa, the former Yugoslavia (2), Haiti, Iraq (2), Angola, Rwanda, Sierra Leone, Somalia and Eritrea, Eritrea and Ethiopia, Liberia (3), DRC, Côte d’Ivoire, Sudan, Lebanon, DPRK, Iran, Libya (2), Guinea-Bissau, CAR, Yemen, South Sudan and Mali, as well as against ISIL (Da'esh) and Al-Qaida and the Taliban.
Mon, 2021-03-08 00:17
#10
Thanks cco.
Wed, 2021-03-17 13:53
#11
Posturing on Genocide
https://opencanada.org/posturing-on-genocide/
"The unanimous Feb 22 vote in the House of Commons to declare China's treatment of its Uyghur population a genocide, with cabinet abstaining, reflects an unsophisticated approach by Canada's federal political parties when it comes to foreign policy writ large, and China most especially.
Even though foreign policy does not win elections in Canada, the Conservatives and the NDP have hollowed themselves out to chase populist ends on an international issue, while the governing Liberals muddle along, naive about both the changing world and China's place in it.
As for the NDP, its support of the motion was primarily motivated by a desire to signal its virtue..."
Wed, 2021-03-17 14:30
#12
The Canada Files
Thu, 2021-03-18 14:37
#13
CPFI: Canadian Foreign Policy Institute
"The Canadian Foreign Policy Institute informs people about the country's diplomatic, aid, intelligence and military policies abroad. While Canadians believe their country is a benevolent force internationally, the facts often suggest otherwise..."
Fri, 2021-03-19 11:15
#14
My Resignation From the Editorial Board of Canadian Dimension
https://twitter.com/dimitrilascaris/status/137259258955a2123912
"Along with Professors Radhika Desai and Alan Freeman, I have rendered my resignation from the Editorial Board of Canadian Dimension. Our reasons for resigning cvan be read here...
Dear Cy,
With great regret, we write to tell you that we are leaving the editorial board of Canadian Dimension. When the US and its allies are on a great and dangerous offensive, CD has aligned itself on only one side of two key debates: around Navalny and the Russian election, and around the Canadian parliament's decision to brand China's government as a genocidal regime.
Having published, without discussion, an article voicing support for Navalny, an anti-immigrant racist, CD refused to publish John Ryan's piece raising serious and legitimate questions about the Western narrative and his alleged poisoning by the Russian state. It further failed to re-post, despite agreement to do so, a Grayzone piece powerfully and legitimately exposing the leading proponents of the genocide allegations against China..."
Bravo.
Cy Gonick, Publisher and Coordinating Editor
PS The NDP is largely complicit in supporting and encouraging this malign, malevolent and mendacious US propaganda offensive. There should be similar public resignations by progressive members in protest of their active warmongering and continuing support also for Apartheid Israel.
Fri, 2021-03-19 20:24
#15
laine lowe
Wow, what happened to Canadian Dimension? I must admit that I have not paid attention to the publication in the past 6 years but historically it was the go to magazine for a strong, left wing perspective that even included putting the NDP on the spot on many occasions.
It's a blow for sure. It's like imagining Common Dreams (more news aggregator than publication) morphing into the mouthpiece of the oil industry. And unless I am recalling things incorrectly, it seemed that Buzz Feed used to be a left-leaning US news aggregator back at the start of this century. And of course, there is the long gone amazing Guerilla News Network. I think Z Mag is still around.
Fri, 2021-03-19 22:30
#16
I agree CD is an unfortunate loss. Unfortunately they're not alone in those that seem to have lost their way. Yes, remember GNN and Zmag too. Here's Znet: