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Referendum Trudeau

He campaigned in poetry but governed in prose

Jeff Costen

Rinkside Reading

What does hockey’s literature say about the sport?

Naoko Asano

Alarm Bells

Fort McMurray and fires hence

Bob Armstrong
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Roland Paris

Roland Paris is director of the Centre for International Policy Studies at the University of Ottawa. An academic and former federal public servant under both Liberal and Conservative governments, he has provided policy advice to international organizations, national governments and political leaders—including, most recently, Liberal leader Justin Trudeau.

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Roland Paris

Time to Make Ourselves Useful

An open letter on foreign policy to the 2015 federal election winner March 2015
Dear Prime Minister, Congratulations on your election (or re-election). You deserve a rest, but regrettably you will not get one, because now you must govern. During the campaign, your attention was focused on the daily battle for votes, but now the future stretches before you. Your most important task—like that of all your predecessors—is to create the conditions in which Canadians and Canada can…