Canadian Politics
Governor General Louise Arbour: the Laurentian default
Mark Carney's pick for Governor General is a 79-year-old Montreal jurist who endorsed a charter calling for the elimination of Zionism, led the UN's push to…
Human Rights
4 posts on Human Rights from Stephen Taylor's archive of Canadian political commentary.
Liberal Party of Canada
Michael Ignatieff silent on Nobel Prize Committee’s “Megaphone Diplomacy” with China
Jailed Chinese pro-democracy dissident Liu Xiaobo won the Nobel Peace Prize on Friday. Xiaobo was arrested in 2008 for being an author of “Charter 08”, a…
Foreign Affairs and Defence
Universal or selective human rights?
This week, the Prime Minister is in China to supposedly thaw relations he has been criticized for frosting since the years he was in opposition criticizing the…
Foreign Affairs and Defence
Louise Arbour commits to eradicating “Zionism”?
Jason Kenney responds, see update Louise Arbour responds, see update Louise Arbour, the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, has voiced her support of the…