Posted on 01/25/2005 8:39:13 AM PST by MikeEdwards
Anti-American think tank, The Canadian Institute of International Affairs (CIIA), made news on the front page of the National Post today with results of a "major study" concluding that Canada has become an irrelevant force on the international stage. Canada Free Press rates CIIA as anti-American because it links to left.org on its website. After protesting the inauguration of President George W. Bush last week, left.org now plans on marking Not My President’s Day on February 21.
For the major study, CIIA dispatched Robert Greenhill, the former President of Bombardier Inc. and author of Canada’s role in the wold, on a six-month, fact-finding mission.
While the CIIA study concludes that Canada has lost status in the international arena over the past 15 years, Greenhill says his findings are "exciting". Exciting because given the big challenges facing the world today, Canada was seen among 40 global Pooh-Bahs as being almost "unique" in its ability to address some of those challenges.
On paper CIIA and its ongoing mission look pretty tame. A non-profit, non-government organization, "for 75 years the CIIA has been providing Canadians with a non-partisan, nationwide forum for the discussion, analysis and debate of international affairs".
The CIIA counts itself as "the only private voluntary organization in Canada concerned with the whole range of global issues and has established close relations with business, government, the media, universities, opinion leaders and like-minded institutions throughout the world."
Located at Glendon College, which is part of Toronto’s York University, the CIIA includes on its board of directors, former Liberal cabinet minister, the Honourable Roy MacLaren as its chairman and Senior Parliament Editor of CBC/TV NewsWorld, Dan Newman. . . . .
(Excerpt) Read more at canadafreepress.com ...
"Canada was once a proud nation but then came Trudeu."
You can say that again! Trudeau killed this country.
Think of our contributions in WW I and WW II, and now our country is not only irrelevant to the World, but is assumed to be irrelevant to many of our citizens.
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I do not pretend to know everything about Canada.
But I must say that I would certainly consider the people of Newfoundland to be Canadians.
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