Foreign Policy under the re-elected Conservative Government

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Prime time Politics with Martin Stringer May 9, 2010: Outgoing foreign affairs minister Lawrence Cannon gave his farewell address this morning to diplomats and bureaucrats in Ottawa. Cannon, who was defeated in last week’s election, is leaving the post after two and a half years.And what happens now for Canadian foreign policy and international trade now that the Conservatives have a four-year majority, with the NDP as official Opposition? Martin Stringer speaks with Colin Robertson, vice-president of the Canadian Defence & Foreign Affairs Institute, and Michael Hart, a trade expert at Carleton University’s Norman Paterson School of International Affairs.