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Canada’s foreign policy needs a shift and a human rights lens

What’s needed in this election is an awakening and recognition that our foreign policy is failing and losing vision. This global Islamophobia phenomenon is entrenched in state-sponsored policies. Both Conservative and Liberal governments are guilty of contributing to it and neither has offered any real action to combat it.

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BY TAHA GHAYYUR
September 8, 2021

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