Policy Options

Francie Ducros probably should have read The Right Man. Had Jean Chrétien’s powerful communications director read David Frum’s account of George W. Bush in power on the plane to...

What a year to be in France. This spring, in the diplo- matic end game on Iraq, the Franco-American  friendship went through one of its roughest patches since relations...

The truism has been ”œCanadians and Americans are best friends, like it or not.” Surely we are in the ”œnot” portion of this cycle. Although historians will certainly contend...

For thirty years the people of Iraq suffered under one of the most brutal and criminal dictatorships on the planet. The crimes to which they were subjected include the...

Options: The US ambassador to Canada, Paul Cellucci, has said that the US was disappointed and even upset that Canada had not signed onto the coalition of the willing....

I want to try to put things in per- spective today relative to the US- Canada relationship. I would like to start by talking about how impor- tant this...

A few years ago I travelled the length of Egypt, north to south. Everywhere I went, I got the same reaction to my nationality: ”œCanada Dry!” I might as well...

There is a widespread perception that the Chrétien government has sacrificed Canada’s number one foreign policy priority, our relations with the United States, in favour of Canada’s longstanding commitment...

There are four ideas that I would like to elaborate on and that could serve as a basis for discussion on the future of North American security. I would...

Our neighbour, principal ally and predominant trade part- ner is at war against what it perceives as a direct threat to US secu- rity. Canada cannot be oblivious to...

In the early 1850s, Governor General Lord Elgin went to Washington to drum up interest in a novel idea: free trade between Canada and the United States. The result...

Many commentators and political leaders here and abroad have expressed the view that since the United Nations Security Council has not enacted a fresh resolution authorizing the invasion of...

Like most Canadians, I received a strong dose of anti-Americanism along with my mother’s milk. In my case, it’s because my mother was an American ”” one who, like...

The results of the 2001 census highlight a trend that will come as no surprise to most Canadians, particularly those residing in communities located some distance from a major...

A few months ago, Statistics Canada released the results of the 2001 census on families. It presented a portrait of the diversity of personal relationships in Canada: unmarried couples,...

The 2001 census data affirm two defining realities in Canada: urbanization and immigration. Neither of these phenomena is new. But the fact that immigra- tion is one of the...

Returning from an early morning walk with the dog, I caught the phone on the third ring, just as the answering machine was about to kick in. In an...