The Department and the Country
(In this excerpt from a book he is writing about the Canadian foreign service, the author argues that foreign service officers must do much more to explain their profession to the Canadian public.)
Radical Mandarin: The Memoirs of Escott Reid
The Canadian “mandarins,” that remarkable group of public servants who came to prominence in the 1940s, have greatly enriched Canadian historiography and public debate since the 1970s. I suppose no-one has counted the number of books, articles, lectures, and essays that External…
Pierre Elliott Trudeau: Stanford University
On January 30, 1990, the Right Honourable Pierre Elliott Trudeau was awarded the Jackson H. Ralston Prize in International Law at Stanford University Law School. The prize is awarded for original and distinguished contributions to the development of the role of law…
Canada and India: The Negotiations for the Supply of the N.R.X.
On May 18, 1974, India detonated an underground nuclear device in the Rajasthan desert. In its official announcement, the Indian government laconically stated that the nuclear explosion experiment was solely conducted for “peaceful” purposes. The experiment would help India in underground research…
De Mackenzie King à Pierre Trudeau. Quarante ans de diplomatie canadienne
Professeur au département de science politique de l’Université Laval, Paul Painchaud est à la fois esprit friand de vastes synthèses et animateur tenace. En 1977, il a dirigé un collectif Le Canada et le Québec sur la scène internationale qui a rendu…
Collapse of Meech Lake Accord: A Rogue Foreign Policy Initiative?
Was the collapse of the Meech Lake Accord a rogue foreign policy initiative concocted by someone in the Department of External Affairs? “Tommy rot,” reply senior officials in External who are keeping mum on the subject in face of increasing evidence to…
Sonnet 435
bout de papier, Vol. 8, No. 1 (1990), p. 39 by Sam Hanson A dry and dusty, bright and sunburnt landLast year was host to the United Nations.They’d come, they said, to take the place in hand:In freedom’s cause, with numbrous delegations.Others briefly came, and then complained:“The BOERS keep these simple folk in thrall!”The PEOPLE, […]
La francophonie, le Québec et le Canada par les yeux de Monsieur Jean-Louis Roy
Monsieur Jean-Louis Roy est né le 1er février 1941 à Normandin (Québec). Licencié en philosophie et docteur en histoire, il dirigea le Centre d’études canadiennes-françaises de l’Université McGill de 1971 à 1980, avant de devenir directeur du quotidien montréalais Le Devoir de…
The Canadian Embassy to the Holy See
Why does Canada have an Embassy at the Vatican? First some facts and some history. The Roman Catholic Church is the oldest and largest religious institution in the world with approximately 900 million baptized members of which over half are in the…
“Pirouette”: An Excerpt
The following is an excerpt from Professor(s) J.L. Granatstein and Robert Bothwell’s book entitled Pirouette: Pierre Trudeau and Canadian Foreign Policy published in August 1990 by the University of Toronto Press, (477 pp., $35.00). The excerpt is taken from Chapter 2, A…
