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February 9, 2011

Canada's Empty Democracy Promotion

Jeffrey Simpson, Globe and Mail

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In two election campaigns and one Throne Speech, the Harper government promised to create a new agency to promote democracy abroad. Not only has it failed to deliver on that repeated promise, but it has whittled away, tampered with or completely eliminated some of the agencies that were doing just that.

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