Demographic Changes Fuel Our Foreign Policy

Canada is host to people from both sides of almost every conflict in the world. Also, Canadians in general are taking greater interest in global affairs – a function of the communications revolution and ease of travel. Or of the possible direct impact on Canada of geopolitics. Hence, the strong views on Iraq and Afghanistan. Opposition to the 2003 Iraq war began with Canadian Arabs and with South Asians and others, whose sensibility to American hegemony and wars is not unlike that of Quebecers. At the end of the Cold War, Canadian Ukrainians, Lithuanians, Slovenians, Croatians, Bosnians and Macedonians celebrated the birth of new states in their homelands. Serb Canadians and Greek Canadians did not. Canadian Armenians have won greater acknowledgment of the Armenian genocide in Turkey. Canadian Tamils successfully lobbied federal politicians, especially Liberals, until the Tamil Tigers were declared a terrorist entity. http://www.thestar.com/comment/article/306144

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