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Question 4: Security

In promoting the security of Canadians, where should our priorities lie? Should Canada give a higher priority to military combat operations? To sectors such as intelligence gathering and analysis? Or should we focus on broader security measures, such as combatting environmental degradation and the spread of infectious disease? What should be our distinctive role in promoting global security?

 

 
 
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Contributor:USC
Date: 2003-05-01 13:01:30
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Canada should do more to address the conditions that give rise to conflict and insecurity beyond, and even within , its borders. Endemic poverty and climate change are at forefront of our preoccupations. Protection of the environment is crucial to the future health of Canadian people and to the maintenance of the Earth of which we occupy a great amount. We have a responsibility to protect the environment here and encourage other nations to do so.

As we work with our partners to strengthen civil society through improved governance, more democratic development and greater respect for gender and human rights through dialogue and by funding research into problems of the environment and poverty, we need to counteract the erosion of freedom and human rights in our own country.
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