{"id":9807,"date":"2011-06-13T12:03:14","date_gmt":"2011-06-13T16:03:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/?p=9807"},"modified":"2011-06-13T12:03:14","modified_gmt":"2011-06-13T16:03:14","slug":"qotd-canadian-foreign-policy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/2011\/06\/13\/qotd-canadian-foreign-policy\/","title":{"rendered":"QotD: Canadian foreign policy"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote>\n<p>Further proof of the Americanization of our politics: the journalistic elevation of the drunkard\u2019s walk known as Stephen Harper\u2019s foreign policy to the level of a \u201cdoctrine.\u201d We spent the post-Gulf War nineties hearing about \u201cthe Powell doctrine\u201d, and in 2001, Charles Krauthammer gave George W. Bush a doctrine of his own as a post 9\/11 present. Today, the <em>Globe and Mail<\/em>\u2019s John Ibbitson gifts our prime minister with his very own \u201cHarper Doctrine,\u201d spelled out as follows:<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<em>\u201cWe know where our interests lie and who our friends are,\u201d he declared, \u201cand we take strong, principled positions in our dealings with other nations, whether popular or not.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<p>I\u2019m no foreign policy guy, and John Ibbitson has taught me more about how Canada works over the years than I like to admit. But apart from supporting Israel \u201cfour-square, without reservation\u201d &mdash; which Harper does seem keen on &mdash; I don\u2019t see the evidence for the rest of it. \u201cNo foreign aid funding for abortion\u201d doesn\u2019t seem like much of a doctrine to me. As for \u201caggressively asserting our sovereignty in the North\u201d \u2026 how so?<\/p>\n<p>Andrew Potter, <a href=\"http:\/\/www2.macleans.ca\/2011\/06\/13\/canadas-foreign-policy-in-black-and-white-and-orange\/\" target=\"_blank\">&#8220;Canada\u2019s foreign policy, in black and white and orange&#8221;, <em>Maclean&#8217;s<\/em><\/a>, 2011-06-13<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Further proof of the Americanization of our politics: the journalistic elevation of the drunkard\u2019s walk known as Stephen Harper\u2019s foreign policy to the level of a \u201cdoctrine.\u201d We spent the post-Gulf War nineties hearing about \u201cthe Powell doctrine\u201d, and in 2001, Charles Krauthammer gave George W. Bush a doctrine of his own as a post [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,84,28,53,41],"tags":[432,258],"class_list":["post-9807","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cancon","category-government","category-media","category-politics","category-quotations","tag-diplomacy","tag-stephenharper"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2hpV6-2yb","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9807","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9807"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9807\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9808,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9807\/revisions\/9808"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9807"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9807"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9807"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}