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Feminist Government but No Feminist Foreign Policy: The Curious Case of Canada

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  22 July 2025

Katrina Leclerc
Katrina Leclerc*
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School of Conflict Studies, Saint Paul University , Ottawa, ON, Canada
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Email: kleclerc@ustpaul.ca
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Politics & Gender , Volume 21 , Issue 3 , September 2025 , pp. 645 - 650
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© The Author(s), 2025. Published by Cambridge University Press on behalf of the Women, Gender, and Politics Research Section of the American Political Science Association

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