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| EST. READ TIME 1 MIN.Canadian American Relations in 2007
The state of the relationship between Canada and the United States in 2007 is in transition. A recent period of chilled political relations, highly publicized trade disputes, and lack of substantial progress in defence relations is coming to an end. Political changes in 2006 in both Canada and the United States have created conditions for more cooperation in trade, security and defence policies.
Rather than continuing to negotiate on a piecemeal basis, this report recommends that the government of Canada pursue two comprehensive agreements with the United States, one on security measures and the management of the shared border, and another on creating integrated defence structures in land, sea, and missile defence, modeled on the existing arrangement in air defence.
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Alexander Moens
Professor of Political Science, Simon Fraser UniversityAlexander Moens is a professor of Political Science at Simon Fraser University in Vancouver, and a former Senior Fellow inAmerican Policy at the Fraser Institute. He teaches American Foreign Policy and the Political and Security Relations between Europe and North America. He is the author of Foreign Policy Under Carter, Boulder : Westview Press, 1990, and most recently The Foreign Policy of George W. Bush: Values, Strategy, Loyalty (Aldershot, Hampshire: Ashgate Publishing, November 2004).His work on European Security includes Disconcerted Europe: The Search for a New Security Architecture (Boulder: Westview Press, 1994). Co-edited with Christopher Anstis; NATO and European Security: Alliance Politics from the Cold War's End to the Age of Terrorism (Westport, Connecticut: Praeger Publishers, 2003), Co-edited with Lenard Cohen and Allen Sens; and Foreign Policy Realignment in the Age of Terror (Toronto: Canadian Institute of Strategic Studies, 2003), Co-edited with Lenard Cohen and Brian Job.In 1992, Moens served in the Policy Planning Staff of Canada's Foreign Affairs Department and in the Spring of 1999 he was a visiting fellow at the National Defense University in Washington, D.C. He is also a researcher with the Council For Canadian Security in the 21st Century, and a Fellow of the Canadian Defence & Foreign Affairs Institute.… Read more -
Cassandra Florio
Cassandra Florio was a former intern in the Centre for Canadian-American Relations at The Fraser Institute. She earned her B.A.in Economics from McGill University in 2006 and will be continuing her studies at University of Toronto Law School in the Fall of 2007.… Read more -
Sean McCarthy
Sean McCarthy was an intern in the Centre for Canadian-American Relations at The Fraser Institute in 2006. He earned aCommerce degree from the University of Saskatchewan, majoring in finance. Before joining the Institute, he worked as an intern for the Conservative Party of Canada. He is currently pursuing his Chartered Financial Analyst designation while working in Calgary, Alberta.… Read more