Rsquo Dept: “We need a strategy. We don’t have that,” said Lucien Bradet, president of the Canada Council on Africa. “That’s what the Africans want. And it’s exactly what we need.” Other countries – China, Russia, India, Saudi Arabia – are pursuing aggressive Africa strategies, and critics here argue Canada could be left out of a future economic boom, or disengaged from a continent whose stability will matter. Ottawa has closed embassies, dropped several African countries from its list of targets for bilateral aid and declared a priority shift to the Americas. Despite a bump in recent interest and Prime Minister Stephen Harper’s G8 initiative to improve the health of mothers and children in poor counties, African countries still wonder about our plans. Mr. Harper declared the Americas a foreign policy priority, but there’s a murkier question about where Africa fits in. The Conservatives’ answer is that it does. As
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