{"id":1226,"date":"2013-04-16T15:31:42","date_gmt":"2013-04-16T19:31:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/carleton.ca\/politicalmanagement\/?p=1226"},"modified":"2026-04-13T16:08:17","modified_gmt":"2026-04-13T20:08:17","slug":"azzi-on-conservative-spin-canadian-nationalism-and-foreign-investment-policy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/politicalmanagement\/2013\/azzi-on-conservative-spin-canadian-nationalism-and-foreign-investment-policy\/","title":{"rendered":"Azzi on Conservative spin, Canadian nationalism and foreign investment policy"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<section class=\"w-screen px-6 cu-section cu-section--white ml-offset-center md:px-8 lg:px-14\">\n    <div class=\"space-y-6 cu-max-w-child-5xl  md:space-y-10 cu-prose-first-last\">\n\n            <div class=\"cu-textmedia flex flex-col lg:flex-row mx-auto gap-6 md:gap-10 my-6 md:my-12 first:mt-0 max-w-5xl\">\n        <div class=\"justify-start cu-textmedia-content cu-prose-first-last\" style=\"flex: 0 0 100%;\">\n            <header class=\"font-light prose-xl cu-pageheader md:prose-2xl cu-component-updated cu-prose-first-last\">\n                                    <h1 class=\"cu-prose-first-last font-semibold !mt-2 mb-4 md:mb-6 relative after:absolute after:h-px after:bottom-0 after:bg-cu-red after:left-px text-3xl md:text-4xl lg:text-5xl lg:leading-[3.5rem] pb-5 after:w-10 text-cu-black-700 not-prose\">\n                        Azzi on Conservative spin, Canadian nationalism and foreign investment policy\n                    <\/h1>\n                \n                                \n                            <\/header>\n\n                    <\/div>\n\n            <\/div>\n\n    <\/div>\n<\/section>\n\n<p>Professor Stephen&nbsp;Azzi has been busy. He gave interviews to Global TV News about new Conservative ads attacking Liberal leader Justin Trudeau and to Capital News Online about the Harper government&#8217;s spin control (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.capitalnews.ca\/index.php\/news\/on-message-the-era-of-political-communications\">http:\/\/www.capitalnews.ca\/index.php\/news\/on-message-the-era-of-political-communications<\/a>).&nbsp; He made a presentation on &#8220;Nationalism, Liberals, and the Left&#8221; to a conference on the 50th anniversary of Lester Pearson&#8217;s government: Hosted by the&nbsp;Bill Graham Centre for Contemporary International History at the University of Toronto, the event&nbsp;included a mix of&nbsp;speakers from the academic world and from politics, including former&nbsp;prime ministers John Turner and Jean Chr\u00e9tien. (<a href=\"http:\/\/pearson50.eventbrite.ca\/\">http:\/\/pearson50.eventbrite.ca\/<\/a>)&nbsp;As well, one of Professor&nbsp;Azzi&#8217;s&nbsp;earlier conference presentations, &#8220;Canada and Foreign Investment: Still Stumbling after 60 Years,&#8221; was published&nbsp;by iPolitics.&nbsp;(<a href=\"http:\/\/www.ipolitics.ca\/2013\/04\/08\/canada-and-foreign-investment-still-stumbling-after-60-years\/\">http:\/\/www.ipolitics.ca\/2013\/04\/08\/canada-and-foreign-investment-still-stumbling-after-60-years\/<\/a>)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Professor Stephen&nbsp;Azzi has been busy. He gave interviews to Global TV News about new Conservative ads attacking Liberal leader Justin Trudeau and to Capital News Online about the Harper government&#8217;s spin control (http:\/\/www.capitalnews.ca\/index.php\/news\/on-message-the-era-of-political-communications).&nbsp; He made a presentation on &#8220;Nationalism, Liberals, and the Left&#8221; to a conference on the 50th anniversary of Lester Pearson&#8217;s government: Hosted [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1235,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1226","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"acf":{"cu_post_thumbnail":false},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/politicalmanagement\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1226","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/politicalmanagement\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/politicalmanagement\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/politicalmanagement\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/politicalmanagement\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1226"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/politicalmanagement\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1226\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1234,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/politicalmanagement\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1226\/revisions\/1234"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/politicalmanagement\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1235"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/politicalmanagement\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1226"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/politicalmanagement\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1226"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/politicalmanagement\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1226"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}