Robinson has criticized US foreign policy throughout her career. Afterward, she declared the disaster a success, even after she herself belatedly condemned the vicious anti-Semitism coursing through the streets of Durban at a parallel forum of nongovernmental agencies. Tom Lantos (D-Calif.), among others, to stop Arab dictators from hijacking an anti-racism conference to advance their anti-Zionist agenda. In the tense months before convening in Durban, Robinson failed to listen to pleas from Secretary of State Colin Powell and Rep. The conference was so biased the United States and Israel boycotted it. She is perhaps best known for presiding over the 2001 World Conference Against Racism in Durban, South Africa - which targeted the West, especially Israel, while overlooking racism in Arab countries. Peter King (R-LI) says, “She is definitely from the school of moral equivalency which somehow invariably comes down on the side against vibrant democracies such as Israel and the United States.”ĭespite her noble commitment to human rights, Robinson has become a symbol of all that’s wrong in the human-rights community and the United Nations - of the tendency to appease dictatorships, rationalize terrorism and bash the West. Robinson’s views are well out of the American foreign-policy mainstream. Edward Kennedy and the late Jack Kemp) is former Irish President and UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Mary Robinson. This year, one of the 16 recipients President Obama selected (along with such worthies as Sen. Past recipients include John Wayne, Norman Rockwell and Vaclav Havel. He is a member of the Canadian Tax Foundation, the OBA and the CBAO (tax section).THE Medal of Freedom is the nation’s highest civilian honor. He was admitted to the Ontario Bar in 2000. degree from the University of New Brunswick. degree from Huron College at the University of Western Ontario and his LL.B. Colin is the author of several courses, and serves as instructor for several courses, offered by the Institute of Chartered Accountants Ontario.Ĭolin Smith received his B.A. Colin has spoken at numerous conferences, including conferences sponsored by the Ontario Bar Association, the Strategy Institute, the Council for International Tax Education, and the Institute of Chartered Accountants in Ontario. Colin has published various articles in the Federated Press’ Taxation of Executive Compensation and Retirement, the Canadian Tax Foundation’s Tax Highlights, the Canadian Tax Foundation’s Tax For The Owner Manager and in various Canadian Bar Association and Ontario Bar Association publications. However, Colin has a particular focus on the taxation of private corporations and estate planning for high net-worth clients.Ĭolin is a frequent lecturer and contributor to various tax publications. Colin Smith is a partner at the Toronto office.Ĭolin’s practice covers all income tax matters relating to domestic and foreign business ventures and administrative appeals to the Canada Revenue Agency.

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