Thomas S. Axworthy

The hardy perennial of Canadian-American relations is once again at the political forefront. The August 2005 refusal of the Bush administration to acknowledge the ruling of the Extraordinary Challenge Panel of NAFTA in Canada’s favour in the ongoing softwood lumber dispute has set the cat among the continental pigeons. The softwood lumber dispute started in 1982: it says something about the tenacity of Washington’s special interests that we are still debating the issue in…

As is evident from the title, Michael Mandel has written an angry book. A distinguished professor of law at Osgoode, excoriates the United States on almost every page of How America Gets Away with Murder: Illegal Wars, Collateral Damage and Crimes against Humanity, expands his range beyond the usual suspects of the Bush administration to include liberal icons such as Louise…