Policy Options

I’m proud to stand in this historic place, which has welcomed home so many Canadians who defended liberty overseas, and from which so many new Canadians began their North...

Prime Minister Martin: ”œYou can’t walk out of this meeting.” Premier Williams: ”œJust watch me.” So began, last October 26, another of the periodic polit- ical dramas that convulse...

Every nation needs a psychiatrist, Robertson Davies once observed, although I have never found the quote. He must have said it because it is so true in Canada’s case....

Why is it that Canadian governments perennially seek to review or study our foreign policy rather than articulate or lead with a vision of their own? After all, we...

Like the magnificent James Thurber’s fictional charac- ter Walter Mitty, Canadian foreign policy has a secret life. Mitty was a mild-mannered accountant with an imagination full of great feats...

The thoughtful European with a distinguished international career put his fingers together and repeated the question: ”œWhere has Canada made a significant difference over the last 15 years?” He...

Lester B. Pearson is often cited as the ”œmodel” for Canadian foreign policy, including the two very different conceptions espoused by Lloyd Axworthy and Andrew Cohen. Pearson was above...

On December 12, 2004, Paul Martin marked his first year in office. A year and four weeks previously, on November 15, 2003, he had succeeded Jean Chrétien as leader...

Chapters bookstores display the motto: The World Needs More Canada. It’s a clever marketing slogan, appealing to our patriotism. It makes Canadians feel good about their literature and themselves....

In the period since the September 11 terrorist attacks on the United States, some of Canada’s politicians and best-known commentators on international affairs have called on this country to...

What do proponents aim to achieve in promoting various forms of ”œglobal governance”? There is no single answer to this question, and the vari- ety of answers should make...

Haiti is truly a failed state. Its history over 500 years since first ”œdiscovery” by Christopher Columbus in 1492 has been a succession of invasion, extermination, colonization, exploitation, repression,...

I expect there are many perspectives on the concept of global governance. The global community is awash in theories and wishful thinking as to what the manage- ment of...

One immediate impact of the falling-out between America and the countries that the US secretary of defense, Donald Rumsfeld, branded ”œold Europe” has been a reconceptualization of Canada’s own...

Est-ce faire preuve de beaucoup d’audace que d’affirmer que les relations transatlantiques ne sont plus ce qu’elles étaient et surtout qu’elles ne seront plus jamais ce qu’elles ont été?...

It has become commonplace to begin any discussion of Canadian-American relations with the inescapable fact that exports to the United States account for more than 85 percent of Canadian...

On dit souvent qu’en signant l’Accord de libre- échange canado-américain (ALE) puis l’Accord de libre-échange nord-américain (ALENA), le Canada se serait en quelque sorte réconcilié avec son destin nord-...

By now Samuel Huntington’s The Clash of Civilizations has been dissected quite extensively. But I have yet to see even one commenta- tor point out that Huntington’s central thesis...

The strength of the Canadian economy increasingly depends on policies that are traditionally classified as social. In an interdependent world of ever-advancing technology, a country’s primary economic resource is...

Par le passé, on assimilait les banques centrales aÌ€ des tours d’ivoire. On savait qu’elles étaient responsables de l’émission de la monnaie et qu’elles géraient la politique monétaire par...

Le 13 décembre 2004, une motion sans préavis était présentée aÌ€ l’Assemblée nationale, afin de souligner l’adoption aÌ€ l’unanimité, deux ans auparavant, de la Loi visant aÌ€ lutter contre...

On a broiling August weekend in 1914, the Great War came to Canada. Most people bare- ly noticed. Canada was a rural country, where any news short of gossip...

In the tiny Nova Scotia town of Brooklyn, there stands an impres- sive stone memorial to the sons of that village who perished in the First World War. Similar...

Bombardier Inc. is the 20th and 21st century version of the 19th century Canadian Pacific Railway. The company has a vision of making Canada into an aerospace leader in...

In game two of last fall’s American League baseball championship, 56,000 crazed New York Yankee fans taunted Boston Red Sox ace pitch- er, Pedro Martinez, by chanting, as only...