{"id":372553,"date":"2018-08-08T08:14:57","date_gmt":"2018-08-08T07:14:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/ngos-and-development-studies-promote-canadian-foreign-policy\/"},"modified":"2018-08-08T08:14:57","modified_gmt":"2018-08-08T07:14:57","slug":"ngos-and-development-studies-promote-canadian-foreign-policy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/ngos-and-development-studies-promote-canadian-foreign-policy\/","title":{"rendered":"NGOs and Development Studies promote Canadian Foreign Policy"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Are they critical thinkers or cheerleaders pretending to be independent of the government that funds them? Given the title conference organizers chose<\/a> \u2014 \u201cIs Canada Back: delivering on good intentions?\u201d \u2014 one would guess the latter. But, an independent researcher keeps an open mind.<\/p>\n

Publicity for the mid-September conference organized by the Canadian Council for International Co-operation (CCIC) and the Canadian Association for the Study of International Development (CASID) notes: \u201cInspired by Justin Trudeau\u2019s 2015 proclamation \u2018Canada is Back\u2019, we are presenting panels that illustrate or challenge Canada\u2019s role in global leadership. Are we doing all that we could be doing in the world?\u201d<\/p>\n

Formulating the question this way seems like a sop to the government that provides their funding. Conference organizers must be aware of the Trudeau government\u2019s arms sales<\/a> to Saudi Arabia\u2019s monarchy, backing for brutal<\/a> mining companies, NATO deployments<\/a>, antagonism towards<\/a> Palestinian rights, efforts to topple<\/a> the Venezuelan government, failure to end<\/a> Canada\u2019s \u2018low level war\u2019 on Iran, refusal to support<\/a> nuclear weapons controls, promotion of military<\/a> spending, etc.<\/p>\n

The reality is that while the two conference sponsors are supported by some labour unions, left groups and internationalist-minded young people, they are heavily dependent\/tied to Canada\u2019s official foreign policy apparatus.<\/p>\n

To understand government influence over the NGO\/development…<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Are they critical thinkers or cheerleaders pretending to be independent of the government that funds them? Given the title conference organizers chose \u2014 \u201cIs Canada Back: delivering on good intentions?\u201d \u2014 one would guess the latter. But, an independent researcher keeps an open mind. Publicity for the mid-September conference organized by the Canadian Council for […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2525,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[519],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-372553","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-newswire"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/372553","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2525"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=372553"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/372553\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=372553"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=372553"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=372553"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}