“The People of Canada will Love Us Again”: Seduction, Abuse, and Subservience in Canadian Foreign Policy

President Trump’s comment at his October meeting with Prime Minister Carney about the “mutual love” between Canada and the United States was interpreted by many media observers as striking a more “positive tone”.  In fact, it masks a deeper problem in bilateral relations, in that many of our policy, business, and civil society leaders are clinging to a belief in enduring US beneficence towards Canada and the maintenance of US primacy in world affairs.  For all the talk about “rupture” and “diversification”,  Ottawa has not advanced a coherent foreign policy vision that allows for greater Canadian strategic autonomy.  Is there a better way?

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