Harper’s promise to make maternal health a G8/G20 priority exposes his weakness with foreign policy

But the Conservative leader is also getting some of it wrong. Selecting maternal health as a G8/G20 objective was as certain to rekindle the abortion debate as letting the Israeli tail wag the Canadian dog was sure to eventually twist foreign policy out o

Seeing the future is usually a priceless political gift. For Stephen Harper it's a curse as the Prime Minister looks past hosting summer summits already mired in a heated abortion debate to the fall when Canada is expected to win a seat on the UN Security Council.

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