14 Quotes by Alex Neve

The outlook for technology stocks is becoming increasingly positive. Hewlett-Packard released some good numbers and it looks like this is becoming a very good quarter for Dell.

The past record of standing back and allowing trade and investment to easily trump the human rights concerns can't stand,

We've consistently failed to get an answer to that.

And there's a strategic moment now to adopt a new approach.

There's clearly a range of international human rights concerns associated with flights of this description.

For far too many years Canada has been timid and reluctant to put human rights squarely on the table in meetings with the Chinese government, scared that pushing too hard on human rights might detract from trade and investment prospects.

If you're part of the chain of events that make that happen, then your human rights responsibility as a government are engaged.

Clearly the fact that the government has decided to build this new institution suggests that they think security certificates in and of themselves are going to continue to be a permanent part of Canada's security measures.

Canada needs to take the human rights engagement with China to a concrete level and move beyond some of the very vague, general, easy platitudes we've heard in the past.