Foreign Affairs committee  On provincial participation, it's a difficulty, of course, because of the nature of our Confederation. We've struggled with it from the beginning, how best to accommodate provincial responsibilities and provincial interests. We had to do this, for instance, from the time UNESCO w

Foreign Affairs committee  You're saying for non-state actors?

Foreign Affairs committee  This goes to the question of a better control system. There really is quite a good basis in the system that exists under the IAEA, but as proliferation risks increase to keep weapons out of the hands of, for instance, non-state actors, you'd have to envisage even stricter and mor

Foreign Affairs committee  I was one of the representatives who did the arguing the last time we campaigned for election to the Security Council. It was a very carefully orchestrated affair. It took a lot of effort. I think that's an essential part of what we've embarked on. There are good models to work o

Foreign Affairs committee  If there's time.

Foreign Affairs committee  We lived for a greater part of the post-war period in the Cold War. The Cold War placed a premium on loyalty to alliances, and it tended to freeze a certain power situation. That contributed to the special position the United States and the Soviet Union, as it was then, occupied.

Foreign Affairs committee  I have a clarification, Mr. Chair. The judgment that Iran had abandoned a weapons program is a quite recent national intelligence assessment of the entire American intelligence community. There have been more recent statements--some by senior American Defense officials of the new

Foreign Affairs committee  I'm sorry, I'm really not equipped to answer that. I left the department in 1993 and I don't know what resources they've—

Foreign Affairs committee  Let me relate this to what I was saying in reply to the previous question. Once again, I think we want to play a role and I think a role would be widely supported in Canada. But you have to consider how you're placed in relation to this question. I think the first step, in the

Foreign Affairs committee  Yes, certainly, I'd be glad to. I think Peter is right about nations. Of course we want our country to hold its head up in the world, but you have to consider what your assets are and what your limitations are when you aspire to influence international events. There's a certai

Foreign Affairs committee  I would add that personalities matters. Mr. Harder mentioned Mr. Shultz. Mr. Shultz was ready, from time to time, to come and discuss matters with us that were sometimes of a technical nature, complex, that generated little public interest. However, he was an expert, whereas Mr.

Foreign Affairs committee  I think the reason we hear less, or have heard less, of the issue in recent years in Canada is because of the end of the Cold War and the fact that people concluded that particular nightmare could be put in the past and forgotten. Now the threat is looming again, not in the form

Foreign Affairs committee  Mr. Chairman and members of the standing committee, I'm honoured to have been asked to appear before you. Your present focus is on relations between Canada and the United States. I contributed a paper to the recent Carleton University project on this subject. The project's pape