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Question 6: Security

Should Canada do more to address conditions giving rise to conflict and insecurity beyond our borders? If so, where?

	Excerpt	Contributor	Date
view	Yes. A well-fed, well-educated, and well-employed society has less incentive to express violence. Poverty and resentment over perceived lack of justice correlates with violence. We need to address these issues.	1899	2003-05-01 15:43:53
view	Canada should be a protagonist in the promotion of social justice and human rights.	USC	2003-05-01 13:57:21
view	Say something about Iraq where the UN must be suppported.	1878	2003-05-01 11:54:51
view	Canada could strengthen its involvement in promoting human rights, eliminating poverty and resolving conflict. It could increase its support of human rights NGOs in Canada and overseas; continue to work for the forgiving of the debt of developing countries; continue to provide assistance in setting	1876	2003-05-01 10:56:36
view	I understand that violence breeds violence. Setting an example is neccesary to stop the ignorance of waring countries. Othera will say "look at Canada they live proud and happy because they war with no one." Taking responcibility for those we offend or ignorant about solves the negativity as	1874	2003-05-01 09:51:38
view	Canada should actively seek out the over-looked such as Madagascar and the former Portuguese colonies in addressing issues that give rise to conflict and insecurity. The principle of developing alternates to US or big power intervention must be adhered to while monitoring the role that internation	1870	2003-05-01 07:27:15
view	We should increase our foreign aid to the countries most in need--such aid should not be based on that country's subscribing to American globalized capitalism	1867	2003-05-01 04:55:04
view	When we examine the Third World nations which have been taken out one-at-a-time by corporate America over the last fifty years...this blood-soaked US foreign policy reveals the true economic and military threat on this planet! For those readers who have bought into the hype of the war-on-terrorism	1858	2003-05-01 04:54:51
view	Where? Almost everywhere in Africa; Myanmar/Burma; Chechnya; Kashmir; Iran, North Korea; Columbia. I assume that we have diplomatic representation with the governments in most of these countries. We cannot play a role everywhere, but in so far as every diplomatic office is serving under a Canadia	1864	2003-05-01 04:54:38
view	We should reiterate our determination to wage war on international terrorism wherever it exists. We must promote democracy and human rights abroad through a carrot and stick approach: bestow foreign aid on like-minded developing countries that endorse our values, and withhold aid and censure natio	1859	2003-05-01 00:55:32
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