From Embassy Magazine, May 4, 2011 Advancing Canadian Interests with the USA Apart from a couple of tropes about the “Americanization” of our gun registration in the French language debate… Read more »
The United States and Canada: trade that needs nurturing COLIN ROBERTSON Special to Globe and Mail Update Published Tuesday, Apr. 26, 2011 Canada-U.S. relations have not figured much in this… Read more »
Taking our continental partnership to the next level Globe and Mail Wednesday, February 2, 2011 by COLIN ROBERTSON On Friday, Prime Minister Stephen Harper and President Barack Obama will officially… Read more »
Excerpts from the Globe and Mail, November 4, 2011 by Allan Gotlieb and Colin Robertson The U.S. Congress has undergone another sea change as a result of Tuesday’s midterm elections… Read more »
Excerpted From Globe and Mail, Wednesday, October 13, 2010 by Allan Gotlieb and Colin Robertson Canada’s failed pursuit of a seat on the world’s most powerful body – the United… Read more »
bout de papier interview on Canadian International Council and Diplomacy Excerpts from the interview that can be read in full above: On life after the Foreign Service: Retirement from the… Read more »
Published in Globe and Mail on Tuesday, Jul. 27, 2010 It’s time for Canada to play the energy card and announce the fast-tracking of a new pipeline to the Pacific,… Read more »
“indispensable ally,” … has about it the whiff of Arthur Meighen’s too-sure “ready, aye ready”
Summitry is predicated upon the idea that better personal relations between leaders can yield diplomatic benefits or as Churchill put it, ‘jaw-jaw’ is better than ‘war-war’. This was particularly important during the Cold War when the intent was to encourage the leaders of the Soviet Union and United States to reach for the red telephone rather than the red button.
Take care of uranium from ‘cradle to grave’ Colin Robertson From Tuesday’s Globe and Mail April 13, 2010 Nuclear proliferation is the one issue that has kept every U.S. president… Read more »