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Harper’s UN Debacle

18 October 2010, 17:41, by Johnny Canuck

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..