Engaging roundtable w/ Macdonald-Laurier Institute discussing the EU's expanding security and defence role and its implications for 🇪🇺-🇨🇦 cooperation. In an era where local conflicts resonate globally, the EU & 🇨🇦 advancing as partners have a great role to play in supporting global stability.

In #WashingtonDC next week? Join me and J. Berkshire Miller at American Enterprise Institute American Enterprise Institutefdp for a conversation on #US - #Canada relations, hosted by Colin Dueck on May 8. Registration link below 👇

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Having appeared on our first Canada-themed episode, #BerlinsideOut fans will know Balkan Devlen & J. Berkshire Miller for their sharp minds and clear perception of what the West’s authoritarian adversaries are up to.

I’ve no doubt it’ll become an essential podcast for our current time.

New Macdonald-Laurier Institute podcast on PRC-RUS with Balkan Devlen and myself as hosts. We'll have a number of CDN and international guests in coming months. Send me a DM if you are interested/have an angle to join the show.

As Iran launches missiles at our ally Israel, I ask my colleagues who voted for a motion to not authorize arms sales to Israel, which would include defensive ones, whether they understand the implications of what they voted for. This misguided policy must be reversed now.

Together with Amb Yamagouchi of Japan (Embassy of Japan in Canada) and Amb Lim of Korea (@Koreaemb_canada), honoured to address the inaugural Atlantic Canada Security Policy Forum hosted by the NATO Association of Canada (@NATOCanada) to speak on maritime disputes on the West Philippine Sea

Was a pleasure to partner on this event - a critical reminder of why we need NATO and it’s important allies, Poland, Czechia and Hungary.

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“25 years ago 🇵🇱🇨🇿🇭🇺 cheered and felt an overwhelming sense of relief. After hundreds of years wars, occupations, oppressions, division, conflicts, we entered the realm of stability that gave room to peace and prosperity.” - said Amb. Witold Dzielski during the #NATO Anniversary…

🍁 Toronto Dialogue on Afghanistan
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A pleasure to join again - very robust discussions this year and much to be optimistic about in 🇯🇵🇨🇦 relationship (and also work to do 😉!)

Scholz is putting Germans & all Europeans in danger.

National Security is the irreducible function of the state. Leaders from the Greens, FDP, CDU, & CSU must now step up to ensure their country delivers. That starts with backing #Ukraine to win.
Read our open letter here &…

We are very pleased to host and organize the first “Toronto Dialogue on Afghanistan” along with the Macdonald-Laurier Institute (Macdonald-Laurier Institute) , Canada’s national public policy think tank in Toronto.

Following the recent UN meeting in Doha, Qatar, focused on Afghanistan, our…

Important early week reading and ideas from Aaron Gasch Burnett for Macdonald-Laurier Institute

Do join Canadian Global Affairs Institute for this event on #iuu Illegal, Unregulated, Undocumented fishing in the #IndoPacific Feb 27, 2024 in Ottawa with renato J. Berkshire Miller Stephen R Nagy Maiko Raita and more
APF Canada General / Général Wayne Eyre iAffairs Canada The CIC
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My latest article with Ann Fitz-Gerald via iPolitics on the urgent need for 🇨🇦 to clearly define its national security and FP interests.
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Lithuania, Latvia, and Estonia unite the effort for the 'Baltic defense line,' planning to build anti-mobility installations along their borders with Russia and Belarus.

The project is said to include bunkers, support points, and distribution lines to enhance regional security.

Foreign information manipulation, interference, disinformationremain a grave challenge for #Poland 🇵🇱, #Canada 🇨🇦, #EU 🇪🇺 and #NATO countries.

Threats, policies and tactics to counter these critical phenomena discussed by the delegation from Ministry of Foreign Affairs 🇵🇱 Press Office, NASK and…

Two years ago: “In Canada we know IRGC officials are snow washing their money through our real estate and capital markets…these assets should be turned to #PS752 families in the name of justice.”

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It was a pleasure to join this inaugural event! Thank you Khalid and team.

Together with scholars, representatives of foreign countries' missions in Canada, policymakers, and think tank leaders from 13+ countries, we officially launched the activities of the World Anti Extremism Network.

Learn more at: WorldAntiExtremism.org