Canadian Prime Minister Steven Harper spoke in front of the UN yesterday, using his alotted fifteen minutes to make his inaugural address. For many in the Canadian media, this was a shining moment for the PM, as if the entire day's session in the General Assembly was building towards it, rather than a parade a delegates on a host of disparate subjects. Harper's speech didn't even earn a mention in the BBC's UN Round-Up.
So what did Harper talk about? Afganistan, using words that sounded remarkably like "stay the course". Prior to his speech, Canadian media asked him what he saw as the biggest threat to the international scene, and he replied "Iran" - even though European members of the Atomic Energy Commission recently published an open letter stating that the US is exaggerating Iran's development, threat-level, and non-compliance. Furthermore, Harper called on Canada to take a leadership role intenationally, even though one of his first international moves was to have his minister sink the Kyoto-related International Environmental Conference Canada hosted.
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