Afternoon Seminar Series:
"Canada on the World Stage: Force for Good or Bad Actor?"
Yves Engler
Friday 25th September 2009
12-1.30pm
Room 305 York Lanes
Yves Engler is a Montreal based writer. His works have included
Playing Left Wing: From Rink Rat to Student Radical and Canada in
Haiti: Waging War on the Poor Majority.
As part of a book tour to promote his recent work The Black Book of
Canadian Foreign Policy, Yves will present a seminar and audiovisual
presentation at York University examining Canada's foreign policy.
This presentation will challenge the purported myth of an altruistic
Canadian foreign policy by exposing how this country has been part of
the command and control apparatus of the world economic system from
its beginning. At first, Canada served as an arm of the British
Empire, but, given the country's location and economic and racial
makeup, quickly became intertwined with the USA.
Comments about The Black Book of Canadian Foreign Policy have included:
"[Engler shows] how 'peaceful, benevolent, altruistic Canada' has, on
numerous occasions, served as an integral part of Western
Imperialism...helping to keep the Third World down."
—William Blum
"Yves Engler's penetrating inquiry yields a rich trove of valuable
evidence about Canada's role in the world."
—Noam Chomsky
(for more details see http://www.yorku.ca/yciss/news/upcoming.html#two )
