Canada follows allies on Gaddafi

Published August 3, 2011

Canada will now accept an outcome of the Libyan war where Muammar Gaddafi remains in the country, almost surely avoiding prosecution for alleged war crimes.

The Harper government's shift in policy, say analysts, was necessary to keep Canada in line with its allies, as well as to provide another technique by exasperated Western powers in their efforts to maneuver out of what one senior American military...