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Canada-US Relations www.policymagazine.ca November – December 2013 1 Canadian Politics and Public Policy Canada-US Relations $6.95 September/OctoberVolume 1 – Issue2013 4 R-D-S-P-e-c-t. That’s how BMO spells respect. If you or someone you know has a disability, the BMO® Registered Disability Savings Plan (RDSP) can help, by providing long-term financial security. Eligible individuals can receive benefits of up to $3,500* per year in Canada Disability Savings Grants and $1,000** per year in Canada Disability Savings Bonds. Invest for a brighter future, today. To learn more visit bmo.com/rdsp or call 1-800-665-7700 to speak to a BMO investment professional. ®Registered trade-marks of Bank of Montreal, used under licence. 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We’re already leading the creation of the Canadian Energy Strategy to develop our resources and move them to market. And we will continue to support the proposed Energy East pipeline to Quebec and New Brunswick, and the proposed Keystone XL pipeline expansion to the United States. We’re also putting new rules in place to ensure that resource development is innovative, responsible and sustainable, with a clear vision of what Canada’s energy future can - and must - be. Our Building Alberta Plan sets the stage for a stronger and more prosperous future for all Canadians – a future we can build together. Learn more at BuildingAlbertaPlan.ca 1 In This Issue 3 From the Editor: Canada-US Relations Canadian Politics and Public Policy EDITOR L. Ian MacDonald [email protected] ASSOCIATE EDITOR Lisa Van Dusen [email protected] CONTRIBUTING WRITERS Thomas S. Axworthy Andrew Balfour Brian Bohunicky Derek H. Burney Catherine Cano Prime Minister Harper and President Obama together at the G8 summit in Northern Ireland last June. Margaret Clarke PMO photo Celine Cooper COVER PACKAGE: CANADA-US RELATIONS Fen Hampson Daniel Gagnier Robin V. Sears Patrick Gossage 5 The Prime Minister and the President: It Begins at the Top Brad Lavigne David Jacobson Kevin Lynch 9 The Best of Friends Jeremy Kinsman Paul Frazer Velma McColl 12 Washington After the Shutdown Geoff Norquay Zach Paikin Morgane Richer La Flèche Robin V. Sears What Five Years of Cross-Border Living Have Taught Me About Gil Troy 15 Canada-US Relations WEB DESIGN FEATURES Nicolas Landry [email protected] Mike Coates and Jack Hughes GRAPHIC DESIGN 17 Harper and the Canada-EU Trade Deal: An Understated Personal Victory AND PRODUCTION Jeremy Kinsman Monica Thomas 20 Syria’s Agony amid the Timeless Struggles of the Middle East [email protected] Celine Cooper Policy The Charter of Quebec Values: Anatomy of a Manufactured 24 Identity Crisis Policy is published six times annually by LPAC Ltd. The contents are copyrighted, but may be reproduced BOOK EXCERPT with permission and attribution in Building The Orange Wave, by Brad Lavigne print, and viewed free of charge at 27 the Policy home page at www.policymagazine.ca. BOOK REVIEWS Printed and distributed by St. Joseph 33 Building The Orange Wave, Brad Lavigne, Review by Robin V. 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She’s a new from Brad Lavigne’s biography of Jack W bilateral relationship is writing talent of exceptional promise. Layton, Building the Orange Wave. As the most important file on any prime campaign director in 2011, Lavigne Leading off our features section, Mike minister’s desk. In our lead article, had an insider’s view of what began Coates and Jack Hughes have a strong Robin V. Sears considers PMs over as a ripple and became a wave. And as piece on the Canada-EU trade deal the last century and concludes that principal secretary in Layton’s office, and conclude that it is not only a three—Robert Borden, Mackenzie Lavigne had an equally close view of major win for Canada, but also that King and Brian Mulroney were out- the final months of the NDP leader’s “it has given Prime Minister Stephen standing, and used their proximity to life. First, the triumph. And then, Harper a clear personal victory.” Can- American power to enhance Canada’s tragedy. It is a poignant story, beauti- ada gains access to a market of 28 na- standing on the world stage. Of the fully told. relationship between Stephen Harper tions and 500 million, with a GDP of In his review, Robin Sears gives Lavi- and Barack Obama, much will hinge $17 trillion, with $2.7 trillion in gov- gne two thumbs up. “It is the final on Obama’s decision on whether to ernment procurement alone. They third of the book,” he writes, “his ac- approve the Keystone XL pipeline. write that CETA “should and will stand as the cornerstone of Harper’s count of Layton’s triumphant cam- For Obama’s first term in the White legacy.” paign and its tragic aftermath, that House, his ambassador to Canada was makes this a compelling must- read.” David Jacobson, who has returned to On the Middle East, our lead foreign Patrick Gossage, former press secre- his native Chicago as vice-chair of affairs writer, Jeremy Kinsman, con- tary to Pierre Trudeau, has a negative BMO Financial Group. He offers an siders the agony of Syria, and the take on Michael Ignatieff’s Fire and American perspective on nurturing devastation of a civil war in which Ashes, his reflections on his sojourn the relationship, not only from the 100,000 people have died, with two as leader of the Liberals which ended American chancery in Ottawa, but million refugees living in camps in in the biggest electoral disaster in the his constant travels across Canada. neighbouring countries, and millions party’s proud history—18.9 per cent He writes it was the best job of his more dislocated within the country. of the vote and 34 seats. One thing life, and of his pride in managing the Apart from providing funding for ref- for sure—he was no Trudeau. relationship. “We started to think of ugee camps, Canada’s job, he writes our border in a totally new way,” he “is to support democracy develop- Susan Delacourt’s Shopping for Votes, writes. “We realized that we do not ment—the capacity for pluralistic is a history of political marketing and have to choose between security on and inclusive institutions.” strategy over the last half century. the one hand and trade and efficiency From Montreal, Celine Cooper looks It’s an important book that, as Geoff Norquay writes: “Not only should it on the other.” at the Marois government’s Charter be required reading for political junk- From Washington, we have former of Quebec Values, and reminds us ies, but for anyone who simply wants Canadian diplomat Paul Frazer on that “history has taught us that iden- to understand how Canadian politics bilateral relations in the wake of the tity politics are most dangerous when works in the 21st century…” shutdown of the US government for they find expression through state 16 days in October.
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