[IPSM] TODAY: Canadian Foreign Policy: Launch and Discussion

[Dru Oja Jay]

* Peacekeeper. Humanitarian. Election monitor. Really? *

* Canadian Foreign Policy: Launch and Discussion *

The Dominion is officially launching its special issue
on Canadian Foreign Policy with a series of
discussions in Halifax, Montreal, Toronto, Vancouver
and other cities across Canada.

(For more, visit: http://dominionpaper.ca/fp )

Come and discuss Canada's role in the world with
authors Harsha Walia, Mary Foster, Yves Engler, Anna
Carastathis, and Dominion Co-Editor Dru Oja Jay.

-> Time: 6:30pm, Tuesday Nov. 7
-> Place: McGill Arts Bldg, room W215
-> Directions: Enter McGill campus from Sherbrooke, go
straight until you run into a building. Go inside, go left, follow  
signs.

Discussion of Canada's role overseas is frequently
framed in terms of benevolence. As Paul Martin and
others have put it, "the World Needs More Canada".

Does it?

The Dominion's special issue on Foreign Policy takes a
look beyond the official mythology to research and
examine the actual role of Canadian mining companies,
military operations, development agencies, NGOs, and
diplomats. Articles look at Canada's involvement in
Guatemala, Venezuela, Somalia, South Asia,
Afghanistan, Palestine, First Nations and others.

The issue is only the starting point for a broader
discussion: Contributors to the Foreign Policy issue
will discuss the unifying themes of Canada's Foreign
Policy, its relationship to Canada's colonial history
and present, and the implications of the current
policy. What else is discussed is up to you!

The contributors:

Harsha Walia, author of “Canadian Aid or Corporate
Raid?: Canada's development agency in South Asia”
http://dominionpaper.ca/foreign_policy/2006/10/28/canadian_a.html

Mary Foster, author of “Selectively Terrified: How
Hezbollah became a terrorist organization in Canada”
http://dominionpaper.ca/foreign_policy/2006/11/02/selectivel.html

Yves Engler, author of “Recognition and Little Else:
Canada's Anti-Venezuela Diplomacy”
http://dominionpaper.ca/foreign_policy/2006/10/20/recognitio.html

Anna Carastathis, author of “Dust in the Eyes of the
World: Feminists debate logic of "humanitarian" war”
http://dominionpaper.ca/foreign_policy/2006/10/19/dust_in_th.html