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Question 10: Values and CultureAre values such as human rights, democracy, respect for diversity and gender
equality ones that Canada should continue to advocate in all parts of the world?
If so, what are the best ways of doing this? |
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Let us begin to practice what we preach. How can a media service which is controlled by the wealthy be considered to represent anything other than Plutocracy(the rule of the wealthy)? Let us begin by making changes to our own corporately manipulated media which as Noam Chomsky states "only giv |
1858 |
2003-05-01 05:00:13 |
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Canada should allow all nations the right of self-determination without imposing our standards on any nation. However, we should not condone regimes in which the people are repressed. We should stress that these countries adhere to environmental and labour standards and human rights. |
1867 |
2003-05-01 04:59:59 |
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Yes. By always speaking up for them. By never apologizing for them. By never compromising them in our dealings with other countries or at home. In particular, by banning sales of military equipment or "dual use" equipment to countries known as human rights violators and to countries pron |
1864 |
2003-05-01 04:59:47 |
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Let me focus on one issue: what can we do when faced with massive human rights violations--specifically, when people are getting slaughtered? In the past decade Bosnia and Rwanda are the best-known cases.
The obvious answer is to say that the international community should intervene, with milit |
russilwvong |
2003-05-01 04:59:33 |
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Yes, Canada should continue to advocate in all parts of the world for these values. Perhaps modelling these values in all our dealings with other countries might be a way to do this. All foreign ambassadors should be subscribing to the same messages - be on the same values page so to speak. |
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2003-05-01 04:59:21 |
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Canada must be more outspoken in its support for countries which share our values, and more outspoken in its censure of countries which are not democratic or violate human rights. In international fora, such as UNHRC, we should denounce attempts to demonize democratic countries, such as Israel and |
1859 |
2003-05-01 00:55:59 |
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No. There are a myriad of more pressing issues requiring financial and other resources, including the need to strengthen homeland security and defense. Our Canadian society, viewed from afar, generally provides sufficient advocacy of such values through the display of positive results. |
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2003-05-01 00:35:58 |
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For a society to continue to prosper (and not decline), we Canadians should aggressively advocate such high values as human rights, democracy, respect for diversity and gender equality in all parts of the world. Canada is known throughout the world for its peace-keeping efforts and giving humanitari |
Rafman |
2003-05-01 00:35:46 |
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Human rights and democracy constitute this country's most cherished asset. Canada should be championing these values internationally, making it clear that these are not simply 'our' notion of good government. However political considerations seem to be getting very much in the way. We a |
1856 |
2003-05-01 00:35:34 |
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Yes, and the best way to do so is to communicate clearly to the members of the international community aware that performance in these areas will determine the level of Canadian cooperation with those countries in the international arena.
Awad Loubani
Chairperson
Coalition of Canadian Arab Pr |
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2003-05-01 00:35:21 | |
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