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National Column: Chrystia Freeland’s nostalgic elegy

Jun 11, 2017 Comments Off on National Column: Chrystia Freeland’s nostalgic elegy

Chrystia Freeland’s eloquent defence of a rules-based international order this week was a call to arms. It was also a requiem.

In an impassioned speech to the Commons on Tuesday, the foreign affairs minister anchored her approach to the world firmly in the tradition of the liberalism associated with former prime minister Lester Pearson.
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National Column: London Bridge terror attack raises risk of over-reaction

Jun 7, 2017 Comments Off on National Column: London Bridge terror attack raises risk of over-reaction

Terrorism is theatre. The point is not to overwhelm by sheer force of arms. It is to frighten and unnerve.

If the terrorists are lucky, they will provoke their enemy into overreacting. Al Qaeda’s great victory in 2001 came not from the deaths and damage of its 9/11 attacks. Rather it came from the fact that these attacks sucked the Americans into two debilitating wars, one in Afghanistan, the other in Iraq. […]

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National Column: Nomination stokes fear of watchdogs on leashes

May 25, 2017 Comments Off on National Column: Nomination stokes fear of watchdogs on leashes

At this time last year, Madeleine Meilleur was a long-serving cabinet minister in the Liberal government of Kathleen Wynne. Over her 13 years at Queen’s Park she held a number of portfolios under two premiers. Her initial time in the legislature coincided with the Ontario tenure of both of Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s top aides Katie Telford and Gerald Butts. […]