Hello again one and all!

Election time, election time! What an exciting time of year this truly is! And what an exciting past two monthes we've had! We've gone through embassies, we've welcomed new ones, and said goodbye to old ones.

I've served you, the public, the best I can -- with our embassies you can travel, you can see what a country is like, and if you want, you don't even have to leave our wonderful region of Canada!

Vote BCC for Minister of Foreign Affairs again, and I'll serve you again -- I will always do the best I can!

Beaver-Country-Canada
Lelana Songwind, representative
Minister of Foreign Affairs

What is your approach in dealing with regions that are democratic (or claim to be democratic) but are taking decisions that to a Canadian view point are undemocratic or violate the rule of their own law?

I would advise these regions to take another look at their constitution, and amend it, or take a different approach -- not democratic, since they obviously are not.

Lelana

What is your position on such organizations such as the "DEN"?

To what extent would diplomacy be used in reaching an agreement with this type of organization if it may occur?

My position on organizations like DEN is that Canada will stay neutral. I am not at all in favour of siding with one or another group, simply because if we side with one, we may anger another, and this will dispense our neutrality.

Diplomacy usually would not occur with such groups.

Lelana

I have noticed that the general pattern appears to be that we wait for other regions to approach us, rather than seeking out potential allies. Was this a deliberate policy, and do you think there would be any merit in a more active approach?

For the most part, I feel we have many embassies, and on my part, this is a deliberate approach. We have no need to go looking, these ambassadors come to us because we have so many. We did initiate contact with The West Pacific recently, but the rest of the new embassies have come to us out of fame and peaceful surroundings.

I wish Canada to stay this way -- I do not with to side with an ally and then find out one of our previous allies has a grudge against our newest one -- we may be stuck in the middle of it. So, unless I am sure of a proposition being successful, and that the region I am scouting is safe, I do not ask for embassies -- therefore, I don't feel we need a more active approach.

Lelana

As the other candidiate for the Minister of Foreign Affairs, I would like to wish BCC the best of luck with his/her campaign for the cabinet position as MoFA. Let the best person for the job win.

:)

What are your opinions of the gutting of inactive embassies?

Would you take the time to write a standard bweezy style embassy report once every 2 weeks that ambassadors would be able to copy and paste into our embassies? If not do you think it is a feasable idea to support a system such as this?

I have been trying to get some of our inactive embassies active again, but sometimes, it just doesn't work out. In those cases, I believe we should have a "Closed" forum, so that those embassies are not being posted in by others -- until the return or permanent closure of the forum.

I would take the time to write a standard bweezy style report every two weeks, but I fear I am not that great at it. In the case of bweezy, I delegated the task, and he came up with a wonder (as laywers sometimes do) -- I cannot do as well as him, but I shall try.

Lelana