Behind the prime minister's UN speech

Published September 29, 2010

With a seat on the UN Security Council up for grabs, Prime Minister Stephen Harper's speech to the UN General Assembly last Thursday was in many ways a sales pitch-cum-job interview.

It was certainly much more nuanced and less aggressive than others delivered by Canada to the General Assembly in recent years. However, by highlighting certain things and omitting others, the result was a bit of a gamble:

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