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24 Sussex Dive

On some very late homework

City Limits

That shrinking feeling

The Grey Plateau

When the world stopped five years ago

Colin Robertson

Colin Robertson is senior strategic advisor to McKenna, Long and Aldridge LLP. A former Canadian diplomat, he was part of the team that negotiated the Canada-U.S. free trade agreement and NAFTA. He also served in New York, Los Angeles and Washington.

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Kowtowing to the Hegemon

Two books look at the always complex Canada-U.S. relationship. April 2010
The back cover of In Roosevelt’s Bright Shadow: Presidential Addresses about Canada from Taft to Obama in Honour of FDR’s 1938 Speech at Queen’s University displays a picture of Peter Milliken, speaker of the House of Commons, presenting a special prepublication copy of the self same book to President Barack Obama in the splendidly restored Parliamentary Library when he visited Ottawa last…

Benefits of Empire

Colonial history determines the success (or bloody failure) of today’s post-colonial states. September 2009