Canada Among Nations, 2007: What Room for Manoeuvre?

Canada's thirty-four million people and trillion dollar GDP don't occupy much space on a planet of seven billion whose economy is now worth forty trillion dollars. The country is not a lightweight yet, but certainly its position as a power is shrinking. What does that mean for the country's foreign policy and its various players? What room is left, and for whom?

In Canada Among Nations, 2007 a team of specialists explores the space that Canada currently occupies in the global policy landscape and considers the bureaucratic players who manage this "occupation." Looking at trade, the environment, development, defence, intellectual property rights, and, the biggest file of all, the United States, they examine the various games involved, from the relationship of the Prime Minister's Office with the foreign policy apparatus to the constraints imposed by Alberta's and Quebec's particular interests and takes on foreign policy.

Contributors include Jean-Christophe Boucher (Laval University), Stephen Brown (University of Ottawa), Gavin Cameron (University of Calgary), Stephen Clarkson (University of Toronto), Jean Daudelin (Carleton University), Jeremy de Beer (University of Ottawa), Wendy Dobson (University of Toronto), Trevor Findlay (Carleton University & Centre for International Governance Innovation) Michael Geist (University of Ottawa), Tom Keating (University of Alberta), Christopher J. Kukucha (University of Lethbridge), Danford W. Middlemiss (Dalhousie University), John J. Noble (Carleton & Harvard University), Colin Robertson (Historica Foundation of Canada), Stéphane Roussel (Université du Québec à Montréal), Daniel Schwanen (Centre for International Governance Innovation), Denis Stairs (Dalhousie University), Carol Wise (University of Southern California), Robert Wolfe (Queen's University), and Debora L. VanNijnatten (Wilfrid Laurier University).