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“We Canadians need, as a country, to be much more present globally than we have been today.”

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Chris Alexander, born on September 9, 1968, is an accomplished Minister resident. He has extensive experience and in-depth knowledge in the field of politics, dedicated to promoting the development of international relations. more

“We Canadians need to go beyond what any previous government has done in terms of our diplomatic network, our support for companies to export, trade and invest beyond North America, and our contribution to the safety of the international system, through defence, development, international organizations, and so forth.”

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Author:Chris Alexander

“We need to give the private sector many more powerful incentives to do research and development, to bring ideas and new discoveries to market in Canada, and commercialize them here, and stay here through successive stages of growth. But they can only do it with better government policies that give them more powerful incentive.”

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Author:Chris Alexander

“The travel is a lot uglier than it once was with TSA and the deregulation of the airline services. These planes are getting smaller for my 6" 2' frame.”

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Author:James Young

“I think [George] Orwell is right. There are certainly moments when political differences appear minor, and someone can claim to be non-political or to want to stay out of the fray, but today is not one of those moments.”

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Author:Adam Hochschild

“All of us living in today's world are facing an enormous crisis - arguably the greatest that humanity has ever faced - in the form of man-made global warming; one can't be neutral at such a moment. It's like claiming to be neutral if you're living in Germany in 1933.”

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Author:Adam Hochschild

“Speaking of Germany in 1933, I don't think you can remove yourself from politics when, in so many countries - the United States, Poland, Hungary, and many others - you've got politicians in power or vying for power who are taking tactics and elements of their appeal from the playbook of fascism.”

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Author:Adam Hochschild

“Compared with how we've ducked it in the United States, Canada should be really proud of how you have welcomed a significant number of refugees - far more, in fact, than we Americans have, even though our population is vastly larger.”

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Author:Adam Hochschild

“I think writers can respond by writing about the refugee crisis, by looking at problems faced by migrants, by trying hard to portray them as the human beings that they are.”

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Author:Adam Hochschild

“A pioneer in this genre [ writing about the refugee crisis] : the book A Seventh Man, by the great John Berger, decades ago evoked the lives of migrant workers in Europe.”

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Author:Adam Hochschild

“It sure is a rising tide, and we have a particularly nasty exemplar of it in the U.S., in Donald Trump.”

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Author:Adam Hochschild

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