{"id":546,"date":"2014-10-24T06:58:44","date_gmt":"2014-10-24T10:58:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=546"},"modified":"2014-10-24T06:58:44","modified_gmt":"2014-10-24T10:58:44","slug":"foreign-policy-shift-puts-canada-at-risk-of-armed-attacks-al-jazeera-america","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=546","title":{"rendered":"Foreign policy shift puts Canada at risk of armed attacks | Al Jazeera America"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/america.aljazeera.com\/articles\/2014\/10\/23\/ottawa-attack-mideast.html\">Foreign policy shift puts Canada at risk of armed attacks | Al Jazeera America<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p style=\"box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 17px; line-height: 26px; color: #000000; margin: 0px 0px 20px 0px;\">A drastic shift in Canada\u2019s Middle East policy has put the country \u201con the map\u201d of international armed groups like the Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant (ISIL), analysts say, following\u00a0<a style=\"box-sizing: border-box; color: #2677b9; text-decoration: none;\" href=\"http:\/\/america.aljazeera.com\/watch\/shows\/live-news\/2014\/10\/parliament-in-canadaunderlockdownaftershotsfired.html\">two lethal attacks<\/a>\u00a0in the span of a week \u2014 one of which is said to have been inspired by the group.<\/p>\n<p style=\"box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 17px; line-height: 26px; color: #000000; margin: 20px 0px 20px 0px;\">\u201cCanada seems to have gone far right\u201d under the administration of Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper, said Roksana Bahramitash, director of research for the Canada Research Chair in Islam, Pluralism and Globalization at the University of Montreal.<\/p>\n<p style=\"box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 17px; line-height: 26px; color: #000000; margin: 20px 0px 20px 0px;\">The Harper administration\u2019s dramatic stance on Middle Eastern affairs, what analysts call an unprecedented departure with previous governments that focused their diplomacy on aid and peacekeeping missions, \u201cputs Canada in a position it has never been in before,\u201d said Bahramitash.<\/p>\n<p style=\"box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 17px; line-height: 26px; color: #000000; margin: 20px 0px 20px 0px;\">Since Harper took office in 2006, Ottawa has sent funds to support the opposition in Syria\u2019s ongoing civil war, expressed vocal support for Israel amid the ongoing offensive in Gaza and shuttered diplomatic ties with Iran at a highpoint of tensions between Washington and Tehran over its nuclear program.<\/p>\n<p style=\"box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 17px; line-height: 26px; color: #000000; margin: 20px 0px 20px 0px;\">&#8230;click on the link above to read the rest of the article&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Foreign policy shift puts Canada at risk of armed attacks | Al Jazeera America. A drastic shift in Canada\u2019s Middle East policy has put the country \u201con the map\u201d of international armed groups like the Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant (ISIL), analysts say, following\u00a0two lethal attacks\u00a0in the span of a week \u2014 one [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,6],"tags":[103,324,446,522,749],"class_list":["post-546","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-geopolitics","category-liberty","tag-canada","tag-foreign-affairs","tag-isis","tag-middle-east","tag-stephen-harper"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/546","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=546"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/546\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=546"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=546"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=546"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}