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Home / Working Paper Series / Working Paper # 25 – Sustainable Development as a Focus for Canada’s Foreign Policy (September 1994)

Working Paper # 25 – Sustainable Development as a Focus for Canada’s Foreign Policy (September 1994)

By John Kirton

Working Paper # 25 - Sustainable Development as a Focus for Canada?s Foreign Policy (September 1994)Sustainable development can restore a sense of popular purpose and vision to foreign policy. Canadians are united in seeing global environmental protection as the new source of Canada's distinctive contribution to the world. By focusing on the mutually rewarding relationship between the economy and the environment, sustainable development can thus orient foreign policy toward maximizing job creation at home, while expressing Canadians' profound sense of community and custodianship vis-à-vis the outside world. This paper presents an overview of a Canadian foreign policy with sustainable development as its focus and some suggestions of what policy directions might flow from such an approach.

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Working Paper # 25 - Sustainable Development as a Focus for Canada's Foreign Policy (September 1994) (3.94 Mb - 32 pages) Date: 1994