The Way I See it

(A link to this article was provided in the Newsletter of the Canadian Association of Defence Organizations on 6 July: www.cdainstitute.ca) Introduction While the relations among Canada, Mexico and the United States have historically had their share of downsides, relations among the three states have thrived in recent decades. This has owed in no small part to the mutually beneficial arrangements they have known as partners in the North American Free Trade Agreement. Donald

Notwithstanding its huge size and relatively small population, through most its history as a statal entity, Canada has lived a charmed strategic existence. As every Canadian schoolchild should know, the country is the second biggest by territory and has the longest shoreline of all the world’s states. Notwithstanding this, Canada has not had to contend with a serious threat on its territory since the confederation decade of the 1860s. There are several factors that explain th