Canada’s job-making machine has continued to charge ahead, so far shrugging off concerns about a US economic slowdown. The economy has added 440,000 paid jobs in the last year, and...

It seems to be generally agreed that the recent federal election campaign marked a low point in the annals of Canadian electoral democracy. The opposition parties appeared determined to turn...

I spent the evening of 26 November, 2000, the day before the federal election, on the Queen of Nanaimo, returning from her mainland terminal south of Vancouver at Tsawassen to...

Commentators bemoaned the crass behavior of participants on this summer’s ”reality television” programming, but paid little attention to the ”institutional structure” devised by show producers. If participants win by...

The international security policy pursued by successive Canadian governments during the Cold War era was open to a wide variety of criticisms, most notably on the question of the...

Once upon a time, Canada conducted and defended its security policies on grounds that were unabashedly linked to the national interest. It assumed, of course, that it had an exceptionally...

I don’t think you can fight a war today without taking into account the media focus, that’s a reality today. So you have to plan how to handle your...

You may conclude by the end of these remarks that I’m a DFAIT mole in this otherwise happy coalition of critics of Canadian foreign policy. Although the Department of...

The prevailing view outside the Canadian national security policy subculture is that Canada is some sort of meek neutralist entity, an ”unmilitary” people, that only deploys force when pushed...

Ideally, a democratic government should rest its foreign policy on a societal consensus that establishes the broad outlines of what is desirable or acceptable for its citizens. In the turbulent...