Sniderman & Roach: “How America and Canada are diverging on the sad legacy of torture,” Ottawa Citizen (2018)
“The political contrast between the Canadian and American approaches is jarring. The differences owe a lot to stronger protections in Canadian law.”
“The past called this progress. The present calls it cultural genocide.”
See also related coverage in the Winnipeg Free Press.
Ottawa Citizen, September 2017
"The Assad government must face judgment by an international court."
ENDING EDUCATION INEQUALITY
“Over the last 16 months, we have pored over yellowed papers in government archives, seeking answers to a fundamental question: Why are reserve schools separate and unequal?”
"Profit is complicity. If we required reporting on all of our arms sales, Canadians could at least have an informed debate about where we should draw the line in our policies. Citizens cannot be taken to approve of a status quo premised on their ignorance. Nor are we likely to change what our government refuses to measure – which, as it happens, is exactly how arms dealers like it."
See also additional news coverage in the Globe.
Transcript to my interview with CBC's As It Happens on November 30, 2017.
“Children may be forgiven for believing that closing their eyes makes things disappear. It is a graver error for Parliament to pretend that avoiding perceived enemies makes them go away. “
