{"id":2200,"date":"2010-10-12T14:07:05","date_gmt":"2010-10-12T20:07:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/macblaze.ca\/?p=2200"},"modified":"2010-10-14T19:23:43","modified_gmt":"2010-10-15T01:23:43","slug":"oh-canada-sigh","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/macblaze.ca\/?p=2200","title":{"rendered":"Oh Canada\u2026 sigh."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Canada did not win a seat on the UN&#8217;s Security Council because a leader of the opposition was sceptical about it. It had nothing to do with our lackluster foreign policy&#8230;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Some observers believe the Harper government&#8217;s foreign policy is largely responsible for the outcome, including its pro-Israel stance on the Middle East, cutting foreign aid to Africa, and also the move away from UN peacekeeping and toward the Afghan mission.<\/p>\n<p>However, [Foreign Minister Lawrence] Cannon dismissed the idea.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I do not in any way see this as a repudiation of Canada&#8217;s foreign policy,&#8221; he said. <\/p>\n<p>Read more: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cbc.ca\/world\/story\/2010\/10\/12\/un-vote012.html#ixzz12B1F3ZBt\">http:\/\/www.cbc.ca\/world\/story\/2010\/10\/12\/un-vote012.html<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Yah&#8230; right.<br \/>\n.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Canada did not win a seat on the UN&#8217;s Security Council because a leader of the opposition was sceptical about it. It had nothing to do with our lackluster foreign policy&#8230; Some observers believe the Harper government&#8217;s foreign policy is largely responsible for the outcome, including its pro-Israel stance on the Middle East, cutting foreign [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/macblaze.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2200"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/macblaze.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/macblaze.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/macblaze.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/macblaze.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2200"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/macblaze.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2200\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/macblaze.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2200"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/macblaze.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2200"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/macblaze.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2200"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}