Jan 16 2023 — Canadian Global Affairs Institute — “Given the deteriorating world situation, we need the defence industry to go onto a wartime footing and increase their production lines to be able to support the requirements that are out there, whether it’s ammunition, artillery, rockets, you name it.” Highly unusual comments from Chief of the Defence Staff (CDS) Gen. Wayne Eyre to the […]
Jun 13 2021 — Colin Robertson — Canadian Global Affairs Institute — Presidents and prime ministers of the thirty NATO nations will meet in Brussels on Monday, June 14. The agenda, for this their 29th summit since the Alliance was formed in 1949, will discuss safeguarding the rules-based order in the face of the rising challenge from China and Russia. NATO operations in Afghanistan and Iraq will […]
Jun 9 2021 — Colin Robertson — Canadian Global Affairs Institute — The leaders of the advanced economies and leading democracies will meet this coming weekend at the Carbis Bay Hotel in Carbis Bay, a tiny Cornish seaside village in Britain’s most southerly county. While the issues change, since its creation in 1975 in the wake of the oil shock crisis, the G7 leaders have had two […]
Mar 17 2021 — Canadian Global Affairs Institute — More than a generation ago, the Canadian government passed Bill C-77, the Emergencies Act.1 The law replaced what the government of the day regarded as the “unjust” War Measures Act, a statute infamously invoked only once in peacetime, in response to the FLQ crisis in 1970.2
Mar 12 2021 — Canadian Global Affairs Institute — With the election of Joe Biden in November 2020, many in the international community breathed a sigh of relief. There was hope from Canada and other Western powers that Donald Trump’s departure would usher in a fresh foreign policy perspective from a Washington focused on positive re-engagement with global allies, an emphasis on reinvigorating international […]
Mar 4 2021 — Canadian Global Affairs Institute — For months, Heritage Minister Steven Guilbeault has been grappling with how to deal with Google (and Facebook) over the controversial issue of requiring major internet intermediaries to compensate Canadian news publishers for news content appearing on the platforms’ services. Canada has been carefully watching developments in France and Australia, where both governments have been engaged […]
Mar 1 2021 — Canadian Global Affairs Institute — According to documents that then-president-elect Joe Biden published in November and December, Iran and North Korea would not be on the list of his administration’s foreign policy and security priorities. During the post-election transition period, Biden’s teams formulated four political priorities: fighting the COVID-19 pandemic, economic recovery, racial justice and climate change. Four foreign policy […]
Mar 1 2021 — Canadian Global Affairs Institute — The Canadian Surface Combatant (CSC) will replace Canada’s Halifax-class frigates and decommissioned Iroquois-class destroyers with a fleet of 15 modern warships. These ships are the result of a long process of translating government policy direction and naval operational roles and doctrine into the requirements of a competitive procurement won by Lockheed Martin Canada in 2018. […]
Jun 3 2020 — Eric Miller — Canadian Global Affairs Institute — Amid the horror of the COVID-19 pandemic, one is watching history turn in real time. The era of China’s unchallenged rise is now over. Forward progress on China’s growth as a superpower and quest for hegemony in East Asia and elsewhere will henceforth face significant resistance. China’s conduct domestically and internationally has created strong misgivings […]
Dec 18 2019 — Canadian Global Affairs Institute — The art of war has changed considerably since the end of the Second World War. In the last 15 years, the centre of gravity has slowly shifted from the Atlantic to the Pacific. The West is increasingly being destabilized. Hybrid warfare and cyber-attacks have become increasingly effective alternatives to both hard and soft power. Russia […]
Nov 22 2019 — Canadian Global Affairs Institute — A joint Policy Paper from The School of Public Policy and the Canadian Global Affairs Institute. Most Canadians probably understand that NORAD — the North American Aerospace Defense Command — is an operational military alliance between the U.S. and Canada that has been protecting the two countries from aerial attack and invasion since the Cold […]
Nov 13 2019 — Canadian Global Affairs Institute — It is rare that a senior government executive can participate in the details of two nations’ processes executed in the same time frame to select a warship design for subsequent modification and construction. One is able to compare the different approaches and develop perspectives that are rarely achieved through periodic briefings and the high-level exchange […]
Oct 18 2019 — Canadian Global Affairs Institute — Energy use continues to grow, fuelled by global economic growth, population growth, the improvement in living standards, and growth of the middle class in the developing world. According to the International Energy Agency (IEA): “Rising incomes and an extra 1.7 billion people, mostly added to urban areas in developing economies, (will) push up global energy […]
Sep 17 2019 — Canadian Global Affairs Institute — The Canada-U.S. Permanent Joint Board on Defence (PJBD) held its 238th meeting in Ottawa this June. Established in 1940, the PJBD1 was created to provide study and recommendations to the governments of both Canada and the United States for the joint defence of “the north half of the Western hemisphere”. Of late, there has been […]
May 8 2019 — Canadian Global Affairs Institute — The Trudeau government released its defence policy, Strong, Secure, Engaged, in June 2017 with considerable fanfare around the publication’s fiscal underpinnings. It was stated that the policy review that led to the document was the most rigorously costed Canadian defence policy exercise ever. The policy was supported by external auditors and accompanied by several fiscal […]