Changing Course

From: Lloyd Axelworthy

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In this chapter, Axworthy discusses his final years as Canada’s foreign minister from 1999 through the mid-2000s, focusing on the development of the Responsibility to Protect norm endorsed at the United Nations in 2005.

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Lloyd Axelworthy

Lloyd Axworthy is a Canadian politician, elder statesman and academic. He served as Minister of Foreign Affairs in the Cabinet chaired by Prime Minister Jean Chrétien. In 2000, he retired from politics, returning to western Canada where he served as President of the University of Winnipeg for ten years. In December, 2015 he was promoted to Companion of the Order of Canada. He now chairs the World Refugee and Migration Council and lives with his wife Denise, in Ottawa.