Episode Details

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4XBu-EidDrI

Canadian author Yves Engler discusses how Canadian foreign policy is an extension of US foreign policy, how the myth and image of Canada as a benevolent nation is destroyed by its violent regime change of Haiti in 2006 and current involvement in the Venezuelan coup, as well as its role subservient to Washington and its wars of the 20th century.

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Show Notes

Canadian ‘aid’ to Venezuela part of plan to overthrow government https://yvesengler.com/2019/02/23/canadian-aid-to-venezuela-part-of-plan-to-overthrow-government

The United States in Canadian Foreign Policy https://www.international.gc.ca/odskelton/gotlieb.aspx?lang=eng

Canadian Amb. Allan Gotlieb: North American Politics and Integration https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z_xEyhL3Lh0

Yves Engler and the Black Book of Canadian Foreign Policy https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6uBoVv-37Rs

Websites

https://yvesengler.com

Books

https://yvesengler.com/yves-books

https://www.amazon.com/Yves-Engler/e/B001K8LTWO?ref=sr_ntt_srch_lnk_2&qid=1552317512&sr=8-2

About Yves Engler

Former Vice President of the Concordia Student Union, Yves Engler is a Montréal-based activist and author. He has  published ten books: Left, Right — Marching to the Beat of Imperial Canada; A Propaganda System—How Canada’s Government, Corporations, Media and Academia Sell War and Exploitation, Canada in Africa — 300 Years of Aid and Exploitation, The Ugly Canadian — Stephen Harper’s Foreign Policy, Lester Pearson’s Peacekeeping — The Truth May Hurt, Stop Signs — Cars and Capitalism on the Road to Economic, Social and Ecological Decay (with Bianca Mugyenyi), The Black Book of Canadian Foreign Policy (Shortlisted for the Mavis Gallant Prize for Non Fiction in the Quebec Writers’ Federation Literary Awards), Playing Left Wing: From Rink Rat to Student Radical and (with Anthony Fenton) Canada in Haiti: Waging War on The Poor Majority and Canada and Israel: Building Apartheid. Yves was born in Vancouver, where he grew up playing hockey. He was a peewee teammate of NHL star Mike Ribeiro at Huron Hochelaga in Montréal before playing in the B.C. Junior League. After being suspended from Concordia University, he turned to research and writing, but he’s still a fan of the great Canadian sport. To contact Yves email Yvesengler(at)hotmail.com

Yves first became active in Canadian foreign policy issues in the early 2000s. Initially focused on anti-corporate globalization organizing, the year he was an elected vice president of the Concordia Student Union Benjamin Netanyahu was blocked from speaking at the university. The protests sparked a massive backlash against student activism on campus. Later in the school year the US invaded Iraq. In the lead-up to t