Scott Gilmore: The UN Security Council seat loss is more proof that when a real geopolitical crisis finally comes, we have no foreign policy muscle to save us
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The UN Security Council rout: Canada’s (at the) back!
Paul Wells: Believing a win at the UN would fall from the heavens on Trudeau because he wasn’t Harper was an expression of the narcissism and shallowness that have characterized this government during much of its time in office
Canada will vote no
John Baird is in New York today to vote against a resolution that would recognize Palestine as a non-voting observer state at the United Nations. The Prime Minister referred to the resolution as a “shortcut” yesterday and has reportedly pressured Mahmoud Abbas to drop the bid. Campbell Clark now considers what Canada might do in response to the resolution passing.
Israel, Palestine and Canada
The Prime Minister comments on a Palestinian bid for recognition at the United Nations.
In other news
Last evening, after four hours of debate, the House unanimously approved the following motion.
Canada spent nearly $1M lobbying for seat on UN Security Council
Diplomatic trips listed in documents introduced in the House of Commons
Harper’s panda politics
FESCHUK: Only a nation with a special rapport with China could rent its pandas for a huge sum
‘It is time to earn back our place in the world’
Michael Ignatieff lays out his foreign policy vision to an audience in Montreal.
The Commons: Derek from Toronto and other expressions of democracy
Imagine how dreadful it would be to live anywhere else
We’re all that an alien species would want
Who needs the Security Council? There’s a much bigger job for Canada out there.