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April 1, 2012

“The wealth of Western economies is no more inevitable than the poverty of emerging ones”

I will use my time today to highlight Canada’s economic strengths and to frame the choices we face as we work to secure long-term prosperity for our citizens in...

Stephen Harper
  • Global Affairs
April 1, 2012

A conversation with John Baird

POLICY OPTIONS: Mr. Baird, thank you for doing this. We’re doing an issue here on foreign policy, Canadian foreign policy being kind of transformed or moving away from the...

John Baird, L. Ian MacDonald
  • Global Affairs
April 1, 2012

Canada’s not-so-prominent place on the global stage

Just prior to the International Indian Film Academy (IIFA) awards being held in Toronto last summer, Indo-Canadian journalist and reporter Faiz Jamil prepared a piece for CBC online. The...

Todd Hirsch
  • Global Affairs
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April 1, 2012

Canada, back again as the world’s conscience, as the world lacks one

On November 8, 2010, Prime Minister Stephen Harper addressed the Inter-Parliamentary Coalition for Combatting Anti-Semitism, which gathered dozens of legislators from over 50 countries in Ottawa. In a talkfest that featured...

Gil Troy
  • Economy
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April 1, 2012

Wanted: A Canadian Asia strategy

Canadians are beginning to realize the significance of Asia’s rising economic and political influence and the need to engage with the region. Bold leadership is now required to shape...

Wendy Dobson
  • Economy
  • Global Affairs
April 1, 2012

Getting smarter in a changing global economy

The Prime Minister’s visit to China — a success by many accounts — may signal a long overdue shift in the economic dimension of Canada’s foreign policy to where...

Derek H. Burney
  • Global Affairs
  • Politics
April 1, 2012

Stephen Harper’s management of the Canada-US relationship

Every prime minister since Sir John A. Macdonald soon appreciates that there are three files that require his or her personal and continuing attention. The first is preserving national...

Colin Robertson
  • Economy
  • Global Affairs
April 1, 2012

Catching Asia fever: Better late than never

On a spring day in Tokyo in 1930, Herbert Marler, a failed Montreal politician and Liberal party bag-man for Mackenzie King, stepped down from his vehicle at the side...

Robin V. Sears
  • Environment
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April 1, 2012

Acid rain: A case study in Canada-US relations

On March 11, 1981, when Ronald Reagan visited Ottawa for the first time as president of the United States, he was greeted by thousands of protesters on Parliament Hill....

Brian Mulroney
  • Environment
April 1, 2012

Stephen Harper’s foreign policy: Prudence on the climate front

There is a widely held belief among Canada’s bien pensants that Stephen Harper is failing Canadians on the climate front, manifested most recently in the government’s decision to withdraw from the UN’s...

Michael Hart
  • Global Affairs
April 1, 2012

Iran won’t blink: Lessons from the 1962 Cuban Missile Crisis

It’s a game of chicken. But don’t expect Iran to blink first in its growing nuclear standoff with Israel and the United States. In the classic game of chicken,...

Fen Osler Hampson, I. William Zartman
  • Global Affairs
April 1, 2012

Canada and the Commonwealth: 54 states, 2.1 billion people

Commonwealth Day, marked in each of the 54 Commonwealth countries worldwide and celebrated on the second Monday in March, is a Canadian product — proposed by Canada at the...

Hugh Segal
  • Environment
  • Global Affairs
April 1, 2012

Canada and the Arctic Council: Our turn to conduct the Arctic orchestra

Canada assumes the chair of the eight-nation Arctic Council in 2013, to be followed in 2015 by the United States. What should Canada seek to achieve during its two-year chairmanship and...

Terry Fenge
  • Global Affairs
  • Politics
April 1, 2012

Russia’s long journey on the road to democracy

Anyone who travelled to Moscow at the time of the Soviet Union must remember their awe at the first sight of Red Square. Though the scene had been previewed inside the...

Jeremy Kinsman
  • Global Affairs
April 1, 2012

Aid and keeping hope alive in Afghanistan

My flight from Dubai to Kabul was full of non-Afghans returning from their R&R, and before even getting back to work they were chatting about their next trip out of...

Nipa Banerjee
  • Global Affairs
April 1, 2012

Haiti: Aid alone will not fix a broken country

As a young freelance journalist covering the 1990 elections in Haiti, I felt there was a sense that this would be a turning point for a country that had been fiscally...

Avril Benoît
  • Media & culture
  • Politics
April 1, 2012

Bringing Sir John A. and Canadian history to life: Richard Gwyn’s remarkable achievement

Richard Gwyn’s book is a wonderful contribution to Canadian history. This is the second of Gwyn’s two-volume biography of Canada’s first prime minister (the first is entitled John A. The...

Jim Prentice
  • Global Affairs
  • Media & culture
April 1, 2012

Inside the Afghan mission: Up close and personal

The final days of Canada’s combat role in Afghanistan have brought a slew of books attempting to chronicle the history of Canada’s engagement in the country. What sets Sean Maloney’s...

Renée Filiatrault
  • Education
  • Social Policy
April 1, 2012

Payer plus pour l’ascenseur

L’éducation supérieure est un formidable ascenseur social. Aller à l’université, c’est augmenter ses chances d’avoir un emploi intéressant, un revenu élevé, une vie sociale et culturelle riche, et même une...

Alain Noël
  • Global Affairs
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April 1, 2012

Editor’s Note

Welcome to our special issue on Canada’s foreign policy, Harper-style. Canada no longer positions itself as the honest broker in foreign affairs, but has shifted under the present government...

L. Ian MacDonald

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