Canada-China Relations committee  I'm not sure what book you're referring to. Is that the “Braver” series with Derek Burney: Brave New Canada?

Canada-China Relations committee  The short answer is that we have a long way to go. The Indo-Pacific paper is aspirational. One of the concerns I have.... Yes, the business community is suddenly beginning to pay a lot more attention, because I think they see the writing on the wall in terms of protectionism so

Canada-China Relations committee  I forgot what I said two years ago. I don't know whether I should be flattered that somebody was paying attention. I probably should be. I don't think the delta on that has changed very substantially. Yes, there are commitments under way to add to the strength of our navy, or at

Canada-China Relations committee  I do.

Canada-China Relations committee  What does this mean for Canada and Canadian interests? First, we must become more active in offsetting Chinese influence, not just here in Canada but internationally and in those institutions where the Chinese are making a real bid for power and influence. Second, many developi

Canada-China Relations committee  Certainly. I’d like to thank the Chairman and Committee members for the opportunity to appear this evening. I would like to focus my remarks on China's approach to global governance and its implications for Canada. The foundations of the current order were built after the Sec

National Defence committee  If we focus on the western hemisphere, a number of peace processes were put in place in Central America in the 1990s. We were important actors, either directly, or indirectly through support for the UN or the OAS. We're seeing recurring instability in some countries of Central Am

National Defence committee  Well, the decision has already been made, and we've been told that by the Prime Minister. He's told us that we're headed for the exits.

National Defence committee  My view is that if this is going to be a successful operation in a counter-insurgency context, then we and others have to be prepared to stay for longer than we're prepared to stay.

National Defence committee  It's all of the above and then some. Some of the settlements were poorly crafted. There was bad statecraft. We've seen a number of cases--quite a few cases, in fact--in which that has been true. We've also seen settlements that required large infusions of development assistance,

National Defence committee  I think it's an excellent question and I'd like to give an academic answer. In the past 25 years, 40% of civil and regional conflicts have ended through a process of negotiation. The others have either kept going—the so-called intractable conflicts—or ended simply because one si

National Defence committee  A lot of the people you have to negotiate with—and there's a long history, as I alluded to, of negotiated outcomes—are people who have blood on their hands. That's just the reality. They're often not very nice people, and sometimes those people, if there is a negotiated resolutio

National Defence committee  They have their own actors or institutional mechanisms and capacities as well, but often they're looking for help. They're looking for outside assistance, and sometimes it's impossible to identify an individual at the regional level who can play the independent, impartial mediati

National Defence committee  You put resources into it. You create self-identified mediation and conflict prevention units within the department. When we have done it, it's usually on a very ad hoc basis. It's improvised and it's not well resourced.

National Defence committee  Absolutely, and more than just a database; also identifying capacities within the federal government, the provincial government, and even at the municipal level, because often when you're dealing with these very complex situations, if you're dealing, for example, with a border ma