Monday August 09, 2010
The war isn't working
National Post
Last week, Canadians heard howls of protest that Stephen Harper hadn't attended the World AIDS Conference in Vienna, and that Health Minister Leona Aglukkaq had "failed" to sign the Vienna Declaration on global antidrug policy.
This did not speak well of Canadian politics, which can be insufferably myopic. It seems no other G20 leader attended the conference, and certainly no world leader or health minister has signed, or would dare sign, the Vienna Declaration -- which essentially calls for a wholesale reassessment of our current approach to fighting drug trafficking and addiction.
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