Gérard Pelletier 1919-1997
It was noteworthy that, at the time of Gérard Pelletier’s death in June, the extensive press comment concentrated on his work as a journalist and politician. Little beyond the bare facts was said about his work as a diplomat. Considering that in…
Competitive Boycotts: An Olympic Event
Contrary to the impression fostered by some journalists and the preferences of most sports organizations, politics and diplomacy have always played a part in international sports. In the modern Olympic Games that role has tended to increase with the financial and logistical…
The Canadian Way: Shaping Canada’s Foreign Policy, 1968-1984
Among the recurring yarns concerning the Trudeau years this one may qualify as the most disappointing because it falls so far short of its potential for clearcut revelations, frank disclosures and persuasive rationalizations. This collection is admittedly conceived by Ivan Head and…
The Foreign Policy Review of 1968
This is an excerpt from Mitchell Sharp’s memoirs, Which Reminds Me… (University of Toronto Press, 1993,228 pp., $35.00). The memoirs trace Mr. Sharp’s career from Ottawa mandarinate in the 1940s and the 1950s to Cabinet Minister through most of the 1960s and…
A Soliloquy for Septuagenarians
In recent months some of our historians have published their matured spin to explain the course of Canadian events way back in the Trudeau era. Pirouette: Pierre Trudeau and Canadian Foreign Policy cries out for comment on its treatment of policy development…
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…
“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…
Canada and the International Seabed — Domestic Interests and External Constraints
The time is fast approaching when Canadians may be anxiously asking themselves whatever did become of Canada in this twentieth century that Wilfrid Laurier predicted, with due allowance for the politician’s fallibility factor, would belong to us. Policy practitioners, watchers and consultants…
A Failure of Soviet Intelligence?
Although newspapers at the time did not report it, and no mention of it is to be found in External Affairs’ files, the USSR’s vaunted intelligence apparatus seemed, curiously, to have failed for a few days back in 1971. This is what…
An Interview with Allan J. MacEachen
Canny, shrewd, machiavellian are the adjectives applied to the current Liberal Leader in the Senate, Allan Joseph MacEachen P.C. To many, he is the personification of the consummate politician. Yet, his involvement in politics only came after he had first established a…
