

When Paul Martin announced his government’s decision not to support the US plan to start deploying a system of ballistic missile defence (BMD), all eyes turned to Quebec public...
The flare-up over Canadian non-participation in North American missile defence is now fading. Shortly, it will be just another memorably unpleas- ant chapter in recent politico-military bilateral relationship between the...
Prime Minister Paul Martin’s tempered February 24 refusal to participate in the proposed US continental missile defence was the third such measured Canadian rejection. Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau, facing...
Until now, the focus of Canada’s military deployment in Afghanistan has centred on the capital, Kabul, where Canadian forces based at Camp Julien have focused their efforts on a...
One of the more unusual fea- tures of the Canadian political landscape, seldom explicitly noted, is that nationalist sentiment is far more pronounced on the left than it is...
Published in 1967 with the unassuming title ”œUpper Atmosphere and Space Programs in Canada,” the so-called Chapman Report has effectively been the defining document for Canada’s civilian space program...
On April 23, 1986 a group of about twenty officials from the Prime Minister’s Office, the Privy Council Office, the Trade Negotiations Office, and External Affairs gathered in the...
Years ago a very successful and respected senior foreign service officer only half jokingly said to me that his memoirs would be titled ”œFrom Innocence to Irrelevance: The Life...
À la mi-mars, alors que les étu- diants québécois manifestaient en nombre record pour dénon- cer les coupures au programme de pré‚ts et bourses, les lycéens français prenaient aussi la...
Il y a peu d’idées qui ont été aussi puissantes et qui ont connu une fortune aussi grande que les « quatre libertés » de Franklin Roosevelt. Au moment...
Canada’s political parties are dying. Oh, sure they have shaken themselves into activity for the duration of this election. The parliamentary caucuses they elect will then take the stage,...
Le Canada et le Royaume-Uni auraient pu se sentir vexés. Le président Bush a parlé de sa tournée européenne comme de son premier voyage aÌ€ l’étranger depuis sa réélection,...
The recent debates in Canada as to whether or not there should be a North American perimeter strike me as increasingly sterile and miss the point that a perimeter...
In a press conference on February 24, Prime Minister Paul Martin ended years of speculation as to whether Ottawa would support Washington’s plan to develop a system to shoot...
In its recently released statements on foreign and defence policy, the Canadian government stressed its intention to enhance security cooperation with the United States, drawing particular attention to the...