In a stunning international rebuke, Stephen Harper’s government lost its bid for a UN Security Council seat last week. The vote in New York was the world’s response to a Canadian foreign policy designed to please the most reactionary, short-sighted sectors of the Conservative Party’s base - evangelical Christian Zionists, extreme right-wing Jews, Islamophobia, military-industrial-academic-complex, mining and oil executives and Cold Warriors..
Harper’s UN Debacle Shows how his Disrepect for Foreign Affairs was Noticed
- by Yves Engler
http://www.rabble.ca
In a stunning international rebuke, Stephen Harper’s government lost its bid for a UN Security Council seat last week. The vote in New York was the world’s response to a Canadian foreign policy designed to please the most reactionary, short-sighted sectors of the Conservative Party’s base - evangelical Christian Zionists, extreme right-wing Jews, Islamophobia, military-industrial-academic-complex, mining and oil executives and Cold Warriors..