Canada’s Israel
Lobby
ByPeyton Vaughan LyonProfessor Emeritus, Political Science, CarletonUniversityD.Phil., Oxford
This article is an update of a study of the Canada IsraelCommittee (CIC) published in the Journal of CanadianStudies, 1992-3. It benefited by extensive comments fromProfessors John Sigler, Joseph Debanné, David Farr andDiana Ralph, and Rt. Hon Robert Stanfield, Ian Watson, andBahija Reghai. I have discussed the Israel Lobby with about20 foreign affairs officials, 2 former Prime Ministers, 3 formerSecretaries of State for External Affairs, 8 Members of Parliament, 6 Senators, and 3 officials of the Canada-IsraelCommittee.
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