Policy Options

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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....

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...

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,...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...