Bird’s Eye: But Canadians are so nice, and we do so much for the UN and why would they reject us? Maybe because we have stopped supporting Africa, cut foreign aid, invaded Afghanistan, and supported everything Israel does? A series of focussed and intelligent responses make it clear how absolute the rejection of Stephen Harper is on the world stage.
* UN vote a rebuff to Harper’s approach to the world Thomas Walkom Toronto Star
By denying Canada a seat on the United Nations Security Council, the rest of the world has served notice that – in its view – this country’s foreign policy is bankrupt. That’s not because the 192 other nations that make up the UN General Assembly particularly dislike Canada. They don’t. But clearly, a vast majority prefer the Canada …that strove to defuse international tensions by focusing not just on who was right or wrong but on what was fair and reasonable.
* John Ibbitson weighs the consequences of Canada’s UN rejection The Globe and Mail
…this “presents Stephen Harper with a choice: acknowledge this rebuke from the global community and rethink how his government presents Canada to the world, or ignore it and accept an outsider status unique in this country’s history.”
* Stephen Lewis on Canada at UN The Current, CBC
An audio podcast. Lawrence Cannon (Canada’s foreign Minister) is eminently loose (get it?), so skip ahead to the 8:20 mark for an incisively brilliant analysis by Stephen Lewis (Canada’s ambassador to the United Nations from ’84 – ’88, and UN Secretary-General’s Special Envoy for HIV/AIDS in Africa from ’01-’06).
