Liberals face more criticism for engaging countries with poor human rights records

A foreign affairs professor and former DND analyst, on the other hand, argues that 'you never have harmony of all of your interests.'
Conservative MP Michael Cooper talks with Shahram Golestaneh before a press conference on Parliament Hill last Thursday urging the federal government to disengage from Iran.
A group of Iranian-Canadians last week demanded the Liberal government include mention of a 1988 Iranian massacre in Canada's annual resolution at the UN on Iranian human rights, and only re-establish relations with the country conditional on the improvement of its hum...

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