Canada and the World
Current Events with a Canadian Perspective
Last update
11 April 2012
Canadian Political Issues
Canada Extends Afghanistan Mission
Canadian soldiers were supposed to all come home
by the middle of 2011, now almost a thousand
will be staying on to train Afghan troops
Canada’s F-
The Harper government claimed the cost of buying and maintaining 65 F-
Canada’s Foreign Policy Gets a Harder Edge
The government of Prime Minister Stephen Harper has changed the language of its foreign affairs officials to downplay humanitarian concerns
Canada’s Parliament is Supreme, not the Prime Minister
The Speaker of the House of Commons
has ruled that the Harper government
must hand over documents about Afghan detainees
Canadians Don’t Trust Politicians
Those who seek elected office
are held in very low esteem
Stephen Harper’s Conservative want to close
down a program that requires people
to register their rifles and shotguns
Conservative Prison-
As the Canadian government moves forward with
building new prisons religious communities warn
locking up more prisoners is counterproductive
Federal Funding for Gay Pride Pulled
Gays and lesbians in Canada see a pattern
in the Conservative government’s policies
No Security Council Seat for Canada
About every ten years Canada is given a
Seat on the UN’s top body, but not this time
The question “Who is guarding the guards?”
is usually attributed to the 1st century BCE Roman poet Juvenal, but a similar idea was expressed 500 years earlier by Plato