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“Closest to my heart, is the worldwide struggle upon which so many of you have been engaged. … Saving the lives of children and mothers is a fight we can win. To get it done, two things are needed now: the political focus and renewed financial commitment” (Stephen Harper, Speech to the UN, 2014).
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Tiessen, R., Smith, H.A. (2021). Canada’s ‘Feminist’ Foreign Policy Under the Harper Conservatives (2006–2015) and Trudeau Liberals (2015–2019) in Global Perspective. In: Murray, R.W., Gecelovsky, P. (eds) The Palgrave Handbook of Canada in International Affairs. Canada and International Affairs. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-67770-1_6
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