About CFPI
The Canadian Foreign Policy Institute informs people living in Canada about the country’s diplomatic, aid, intelligence, trade and military policies abroad. The CFPI opposes the racism embedded in foreign policy. The non-partisan organization also monitors corporate Canada’s international activities.
While Canadians generally believe their country is a benevolent force internationally, the facts often suggest otherwise. CFPI seeks to bridge the gap between government policy and public perception.
Bianca Mugyenyi, Director
Bianca Mugyenyi is an activist, journalist and author of the book Stop Signs. She is former Co-Executive Director of The Leap, and led programming and campaigns at Concordia University’s Centre for Gender Advocacy.
Alain Deneault, Fellow
Alain Deneault has a research doctorate from Centre Marc Bloch, Berlin, and a PhD in philosophy from Paris 8 University. He has written several books on topics related to international finance, globalization, transnational corporations, and corporate tax havens. The book Noir Canada: Pillage, corruption et criminalité en Afrique, written by Deneault, Delphine Abadie, and William Sacher, published in 2008 by Les Éditions Écosociété Inc., concerns the activities of Canadian mining companies in Africa.
Tamara Lorincz, Fellow
Tamara Lorincz is a PhD candidate in Global Governance at the Balsillie School for International Affairs at Wilfrid Laurier University. She has a masters in International Politics & Security Studies from the University of Bradford and a Law degree and MBA specializing in environmental law and management from Dalhousie University. She’s a member of the Canadian Voice of Women for Peace, the Women’s International League for Peace and Freedom, the Canadian Pugwash Group, and the No to NATO Network. She is also on the international advisory council of World Beyond War and the Global Network Against Weapons and Nuclear Power in Space.
Dolores Chew, Fellow
Dolores Chew is a founding member of Montreal’s South Asian Women’s Community Centre (SAWCC). She is also a history and humanities instructor at Marianopolis College and Research Associate at the Simone de Beauvoir Institute of Concordia University.
David Webster, Fellow
David Webster is a history professor at Bishop's University in Sherbrooke, Quebec as well as an adjunct research professor at Carleton University. His most recent book is Challenge the Strong Wind: Canada and East Timor 1975-99. He is also author of Fire and the Full Moon:Canada and Indonesia in a Decolonizing World; editor of Flowers in the Wall: Truth and Reconciliation in Timor-Leste, Indonesia and Melanesia, and co-editor of A Samaritan State: Historical Perspectives on Canadian Foreign Aid. Online contributions include historybeyondborders.ca, reconciliationtim.ca and timorarchive.ca sites.
Arnold August, Fellow
Arnold August, M.A. in Political Science (McGill University) is a Montreal-based author of Democracy in Cuba and the 1997–98 Elections, Cuba and Its Neighbours: Democracy in Motion and Cuba–U.S. Relations: Obama and Beyond. As a journalist, writing in English, Spanish and French, he collaborates with many web sites, television and radio broadcasts based in Latin America, Cuba, Europe, North America and the Middle East. His current journalistic and speaker focus: U.S.-Cuba-Venezuela-Bolivia and Canada: The Geopolitics. (English, Français, Español)
Yves Engler, Fellow
Yves Engler is a Montréal-based activist and author who has published 9 books on Canadian foreign policy including his latest House of Mirrors — Justin Trudeau’s Foreign Policy. You can follow his writing and activism at yvesengler.com
Nikolas Barry-Shaw, Fellow
Nikolas Barry-Shaw is an independent researcher and member of the Canada Haiti Action Network. He is co-author of Paved with Good Intentions: Canada’s Development NGOs from Idealism to Imperialism.
To request an interview with a CFPI fellow, please email: info@foreignpolicy.ca
2021 Advisory board
Arnold August
Yves Engler
David Heap
David Kattenburg
Tamara Lorincz
Karen Rodman