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LINK: http://www.presstv.ir/detail/2013/03/31/295908/canada-only-country-not-to-support-un-antidrought-convention/ Canada's ruling Conservative party has withdrawn Canada from a UN anti-drought convention. All U-N members are participants in the convention which makes Canada now the only country not to support combating famine-inducting droughts. A spokesperson for the UN has called the move "regrettable". Joshua Blakeney reports from Calgary. Canada continues to stick out like a sore thumb in the international community. The world's second largest country unilaterally withdrew from a UN convention on drought-prevention this week, making Canada the only UN member state not to be a participant in the Convention. Analysts say that decisions like this are an inevitable product of the Harper government's neoconservative ideology. Such neoconservatives don't like the UN because it is one of the few venues where Western policy and especially Israeli policy is exposed as immoral. Pro-Harper regime propaganda outlets frequently call for Canada's full withdrawal from the UN and actions such as the one taken this week moves Canada one step closer towards that neoconservative, Western exceptionalist goal. Canada's Foreign Affairs Minister, John Baird, disparaged the UN anti-drought convention as a "talkfest" that didn't warrant the measly US$291,000 that Canada was providing. Critics of Baird have noted that Canada's controversial Foreign Minister has spent trillions of tax payer dollars waging unpopular wars in Africa in countries such as Mali and Libya. Such critics also wonder how experts are supposed to combat droughts without both funding and the ability to discuss the problem at international fora. Canada hasthe eyes of the majority UN memb increasingly become a pariah state in ers. In 2010 Canada failed to get elected to the UN security council, a development which even Canada's then foreign minister attributed to Canada's controversial foreign policy. Canada's Conservative government consistently whitewashes Israel's crimes against the Palestinians, legitimizes illegal wars of aggression and now has withdrawn its support for the prevention of famine-inducing droughts.