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How the 1972 Summit Series Shaped Canada: It’s Not What You Think

How the 1972 Summit Series Shaped Canada: It’s Not What You Think
The Aga Khan Museum in Toronto. The Canadian Press/Aaron Vincent Elkaim
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This Canada Day, reflecting on what it means to be Canadian, I want to take you back to the 1972 Summit Series. But not for Canada’s victory over the Soviets, but its indirect impact on an even more high-stakes drama playing out in… Uganda.

Rahim Mohamed
Rahim Mohamed
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Rahim Mohamed, Ph.D., is a senior fellow at the Aristotle Foundation for Public Policy. He holds a doctorate in political science from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.