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A Response to Our Critics – Re: Can Canada-U.S. Defence Ties Survive Trump?
- Analysis
- April 2, 2025
On March 21, we published an op-ed in the Globe and Mail arguing that Canada had to become less reliant on the United States in matters of national defence. We held that Canada should rely more on itself and build new partnerships and alliances. Since the op-ed was published, we have had pushback from many
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Trump, Tariffs and Free Trade, Part 2: Implications for Canada
- Analysis
- April 1, 2025
From 1945 until recently, the United States served as the cornerstone of the liberal rules-based international order in trade, finance and security. Sometimes, the US played this role unwillingly or half-heartedly, sometimes hypocritically. Occasionally, the US acted illegally and undermined that order, while supporting other aspects of that order, notably the economic parts. But those
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Trump, Tariffs and Free Trade, Part 1: What Everybody Got Wrong
- Analysis
- March 31, 2025
Here is a sentence no one could have written in the 1980s: “Canada’s political parties and provincial governments are united in supporting free trade with the United States”. The 1980s featured a ferocious debate on whether free trade with the US would mean deindustrialization of the True North and perhaps even the end of Canadian
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Canada’s Africa Strategy: A Robust New Foreign Policy?
The timing was unusual. After being delayed by well over a year, the Trudeau government finally released its Africa strategy, a mere eight days before a new government was sworn in and probably only a few weeks before new federal elections are called. Many outside observers weren’t sure the document was ever going to see the
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