Category: Foreign Policy
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Read more: We are very well served by our diplomats in WashingtonThis is a recent conversation with Amb. Kirsten Hillman with The Atlantic.
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Read more: Canada’s Engagement with the United StatesThe Government of Canada has created a web portal that summarizes the trade, tariff, and security relationship with the United States. This is probably a website that should be bookmarked by anyone looking for the details of…
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Read more: Canada needs to prepare for the effects of the ‘Mar-a-Lago Accord’
This piece in the Globe and Mail starts to get at some of the issues and linkages that may well come up in the negotiation of a new relationship with the U.S. Contributed to The Globe and…
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Read more: Welcome to Crazy Town, U.S.A. …an increasingly weird and dangerous place to live beside
He hasn’t taken office yet, but Donald Trump keeps stirring the pot with Canada and other “allies”. At a news conference today he indicated he can’t rule out the use of force to take control of the…
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Read more: Limited contact, constant surveillance: Canada’s ambassador to Russia on life in MoscowUnlike many of my former colleagues, I was not a career Canadian foreign service officer. I was a trade negotiator for Canada which meant that while I travelled the world to engage in a variety of economic…
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Read more: Welcome to 2025 Canada… buckle up for big Trump challengesSince his election as U.S. President in November Donald Trump has been busy making a series of bombastic threats to Canada as part of an effort to require Canada to make a series of policy changes that…
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Read more: Towards a Reinvigorated Latin American Foreign PolicyIn my capacity as Canadian International Council (CIC) Latin America and Caribbean Study Group Chair, I had the honour and pleasure to moderate a discussion in late 2023 held on Parliament Hill between Latin American Ambassadors to…
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Read more: To there…and back againCanadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau travelled to the White House yesterday to meet face to face with President Donald Trump…and survived to tell of tale. Indeed, to listen to the media here, he has pulled off something…
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Read more: Another Trudeau goes to ChinaCanada’s Prime Minister Trudeau is off to China for the G20 meetings and bilateral meetings with Chinese leadership. There is always great expectation around such meetings and lots of analysis. Issues of trade and human rights will…