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The Right did Wrong: A Presentation by Yves Engler

How Stephen Harper’s government destroyed Canada’s reputation as an honest broker and lost the vote for a seat at the UN Security Council


3:00pm
Sunday January 30 2011

 

Castlegar:
3-5 p.m
Castlegar public library, 1005 3rd street
$5 suggested donation (no one denied for lack of funds)
 
Nelson:
7-9 p.m
TNT Theatre, 723 Ward Street.
$5 suggested donation (no one denied for lack of funds)
 

The Right did wrong — 
How Stephen Harper’s government destroyed Canada’s reputation as an honest broker and lost the vote for a seat at the UN Security Council.

A presentation by Yves Engler, author of The Black Book of Canadian Foreign Policy and other books

Harper’s Conservatives have gone out of their way to make enemies and alienate countries around the world. Under Harper, Canada has...

- repeatedly sabotaged international climate negotiations

- obstructed efforts to reschedule the Congo’s debt

- failed to cut aid to the Honduran military government after it removed elected president Manuel Zelaya

- repeatedly criticized the Venezuelan government

- signed a free-trade agreement with Latin America’s most repressive state

- militarized aid to Haiti

- flew fighter jets near Russian airspace

- unconditionally supported Israel against the Palestinians

- paved the way for a possible attack on Iran

- rejected a proposal to make diplomatic and financial support for resource companies operating overseas contingent upon socially responsible conduct

- supported torture in Afghanistan and embraced an increasingly violent counterinsurgency war.

The result? Canada has few friends left in international bodies.

Everyone is welcome and encouraged to come to this event, especially those who still feel Canada is a benign force for democracy!

Yves Engler has been dubbed “one of the most important voices on the Canadian Left today” (Briarpatch magazine) and “in the mould of I. F. Stone” (Globe and Mail). His books have been praised by Noam Chomsky, Naomi Klein, Rick Salutin and many others.

"Corporate and imperial interests dominate this country’s role in the world. It’s time to acknowledge this, which is the first step to changing it." - Yves Engler

 

 

 


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