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Question 10: Values and Culture

Are values such as human rights, democracy, respect for diversity and gender equality ones that Canada should continue to advocate in all parts of the world? If so, what are the best ways of doing this?

	Excerpt	Contributor	Date
view	Yes, but we must remain sensitive to other cultures, beliefs, and ways of life. This is best done through open discussion and debate. We cannot understand those we do not hear.	1905	2003-05-01 21:07:08
view	These are worthy global goals. People should have the right to participate in all levels of life, including governing themselves althought this latter may no look like the kind of "democracy" that we practice Teaching by example is always an effective way to transmit behavioural knowledge.	1899	2003-05-01 15:45:31
view	As we strive to promote sustainable development to eliminate the fundamental barriers to human development and contribute to a more secure, equitable and prosperous World, we believe that human rights, democracy, the respect for diversity and gender equality should be advocated and they are part of	USC	2003-05-01 13:58:09
view	Without a doubt Canada should continue to promote these values as ones we strive to practice within our own country and ones we hope to see constantly improving around the globe. These values in many ways represent what should be the true pillars of our foreign policy. I believe that with these basi	AndrewB	2003-05-01 12:03:47
view	Yes, through agencies of the UN, i.e. UNEsCo, We are becoming more diferent from the US every day. Take a Canadian stand: merely to be independent is enough.	1878	2003-05-01 12:01:05
view	Values such as human rights, deomocracy, respect for diversity and gender equality are entrenched in international human rights instruments such as the Convention for the Elimination of Racism, the Convention for the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women (CEDAW), as well as instru	1876	2003-05-01 12:00:30
view	To uphold the highest moral standards we can when others are demoralizing us is one of the hardest things we could do but it is also one of the best as we affect our environment and those around us. So it would be in the best intresst of all of humanity to treat others with respect and dignity that	1874	2003-05-01 10:05:14
view	Individual Canadians not MPs,so-called leaders of the community, experts or government employees are the best exporters of the value of CHOICE. Promotion of exchanges of individual Canadians, both youth and those retired, with countries where Canada wishes to make a difference, should be supporte	1870	2003-05-01 07:28:20
view	Human rights, democracy, respect for diversity and gender equality are our greatest foreign policy assets, all the more acceptable in the world view since Canada is not perceived to be a major or threatening military power. Showing by example what has come of our values has far greater impact than d	wdc	2003-05-01 07:28:08
view	Yes, we should advocate for these. I don't know the best ways, and I'm sorry I'm doing this at the last minute of the last day, but I do think we could use our trade leverage when necessary, as I have described in other answers.	1868	2003-05-01 05:00:27
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