When autumn leaves start to fall.....
Canada's federal Liberal government has fallen in a non-confidence vote in the House.Liberal government falls
I'm going to sit this one out, something I'm rather keen to do. Instead, I have a pet project: tracking foreign policy related issues in this election. It's likely not to make a significant appearance, if at all. It's always been a strong Liberal hold, especially in the months, and now years, since Jean Chretien took a stand in 2003 and declared Canada would not join the U.S., ahem, coalition, in the war in Iraq. So far, it has been mentioned by the press that appointed Toronto's Etobicoke-Lakeshore candidate Michael Ignatieff (a star candidate in his own right) supported the U.S. invasion of Iraq, in his words, as "a reluctant supporter" of the war. (NY Times here, but available here for free.)
Sidenote: If Canadian Conservatives had any sense beyond Stephen Harper's emabrrasing "we should do this because the U.S. says so" the case may have been closer. How possible is that when you have a leader who would be unable to gain more seats without any scandal to give him airtime, and your Foreign Affairs critic is Stockwell Day? But I digress.
Regardless, with the ICC in full swing and new characters at the UN, amongst many others, there is plenty of meat for foreign policy related matters in this election. I do hope candidates won't solely be "Gomery" but take a decent amount of time to
In other news, Aid group of Canadian hostages in Iraq identified
and this ICC: Success Depends on Engaging Local Populace
and this ZIMBABWE: NGO coalition calls on the ICC to intervene
and this Darfur rebels say attack town, demand seat at talks
and this Canada urges wider global warming fight
and this UN envoy calls on Darfur rebel factions to cooperate in peace talks
and this Annan 'deeply disappointed' at extension of Myanmar activist's detention
posted by Carla @ 5:28 AM
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