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Originally Posted by CaptainCrunch
It think Harper has done a great job in terms of trade relations, overall I think he's been good on the human rights front, I would have liked to see the Harper government acting in a stronger way in terms of things like the imprisoned journalist in egypt. I have no trouble with the maintenance on International relations, and think that he's taken a good lead role in terms of Ukraine.
I'm happy with his stance on Iran.
I don't have many problems with his foreign policy at all.
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One that does deserve discussion is his handling of China and the Canada-China trade deal.
It was a good lesson for him and the rest of the world on dealing with China. He at first took a pretty hard line stance guided by a naive or misunderstood impression of who needed who more. Now he appears to be much more conciliatory after getting smacked around. They called his bluff and it ended in a deal that is far too one-sided.
It's certainly good for our energy industry, but we were negotiating from a position of weakness and it shows. Don't get me wrong, we need an infusion of foreign capital to develop the oil sands, but I think we got bent over.