{"id":394391,"date":"2019-01-28T18:26:08","date_gmt":"2019-01-28T17:26:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/canada-a-force-for-good-or-a-tag-along-bully-nation\/"},"modified":"2019-01-28T18:26:08","modified_gmt":"2019-01-28T17:26:08","slug":"canada-a-force-for-good-or-a-tag-along-bully-nation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/canada-a-force-for-good-or-a-tag-along-bully-nation\/","title":{"rendered":"Canada a Force for Good or a Tag-along Bully Nation?"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Most Canadians think of their country as a force for good in the world, but recent efforts by Justin Trudeau\u2019s government to overthrow Venezuela\u2019s elected government have once again revealed the ugly truth about the Great White North. We are an important partner in imperialism, willing to interfere in the internal affairs of other countries, up to and including the use of military force, to benefit the perceived self-interest of our elites.<\/p>\n

Over the past two years Canadian officials have campaigned aggressively against President Nicol\u00e1s Maduro. Foreign Minister Chrystia Freeland has repeatedly criticized Caracas\u2019 democratic legitimacy and human rights record. Recently she said, \u201cthe Maduro<\/a>\u00a0\u00a0regime is now fully entrenched as a dictatorship\u201d while in September Ottawa\u00a0asked<\/a>\u00a0\u00a0(with five South American nations) the International Criminal Court to investigate the Venezuelan government, which is the first time a government has been formally brought before the tribunal by another member.<\/p>\n

In recent weeks Canadian diplomats have played an important role in uniting large swaths of the Venezuelan opposition behind a US-backed plan to ratchet up tensions by proclaiming the new head of the opposition-dominated National Assembly, Juan Guaido, president. The Canadian Press quoted a Canadian diplomat saying they helped Guaido \u201cfacilitate<\/a>\u00a0\u00a0conversations with people that were out of the country and inside the country\u201d while the\u00a0Globe and Mail<\/em>\u00a0reported that…<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Most Canadians think of their country as a force for good in the world, but recent efforts by Justin Trudeau\u2019s government to overthrow Venezuela\u2019s elected government have once again revealed the ugly truth about the Great White North. We are an important partner in imperialism, willing to interfere in the internal affairs of other countries, […]<\/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-394391","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\/394391","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=394391"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/394391\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=394391"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=394391"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=394391"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}