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Question 11: Values and CultureShould Canada seek out opportunities for fostering global intercultural dialogue
and interfaith understanding? |
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Yes, and should take an active leading role in such activities. Canada should play a leadership in this area.
Awad Loubani
Chairperson
Coalition of Canadian Arab Professional and Community Associations - National Capital Region |
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2003-05-01 00:36:37 |
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Canada has a unique opportunity to contribute to intercultural and interfaith dialogue by living our national example. We must first ensure that prejudice and competition or conflict based in culture or faith is not tolerated. Although there is no need for a total assimilation in Canada, there must |
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2003-05-01 00:36:25 |
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Absolutely! It is critical for our security that we should be aware of how we are perceived by others and for us to be aware of the culture and characteristics of others. Western Governments rarely ask how they are perceived in the world, rather, they prefer to focus their efforts on defending them |
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2003-04-30 19:30:20 |
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Canada is home to people of every ethnic group, language and religion on earth. This could be a resource that could be enormously helpful in building bridges all over the world. And it may be useful to start building these bridges now. Demographers state that the two fastest growing religions in t |
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2003-04-30 19:30:06 |
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As a past-president of the Association for Canadian Studies in the United States, and as an individual with academic expertise in the field of Canadian politics, I would like to thank you for the opportunity to participate in your "foreign policy dialogue."
One of the mo |
ACSUS |
2003-04-30 18:39:51 |
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Question 11. Yes, this is the only way to combat fanaticism on all sides. We see the dialogue with Islamic groups as especially important. We support strengthening UNESCO in support of this goal. |
HamiltonPGS |
2003-04-30 18:39:19 |
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Yes. |
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2003-04-30 18:39:07 |
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Definitely, but we should also encourage such dialogue, internally, within Canada, in a somewhat similar way.
Encouraging such understanding could become an important
of childrens' formal education. We should promote the education in values around the world. Learning non-violence and cooperati |
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2003-04-30 18:38:43 |
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Interfaith understanding ?!?
First, we have to have the courage to break out of our deliberately-chosen naivete. This will take more than we now have - without courage, all the learning goes into the gutter, as exemplified by the process and consequences of Durban. Canada sold out at Durban. I h |
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2003-04-30 18:38:31 |
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Yes I believe it should.Peaceful co-existence among people around the world and in Canada can only help foster Canadian values and interests. |
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2003-04-30 18:38:07 | |
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