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Foreign Affairs Department has ‘no policy capacity,’ has become a ‘roving travel agency and property management department’

Paul Martin in The Unexpected War says, '...We have totally destroyed the policy-making capacity of public service.'

In the winter of 2005, Paul Martin's overdue International Policy Statement, an important document that would describe the government's international policy framework, remarkably fell onto the shoulders of an international relations professor working out of a damp, cramped office at Oxford...

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