Foreign Affairs committee  Thank you.

Foreign Affairs committee  It's very simple. Join.

Foreign Affairs committee  And it's not only against North Korea. We're talking about 20 to 25 years. We have no idea what the geopolitical realities will be, but we do know that 25 years into the future, we're going to be deeply linked to the United States, continuing as we have been since 1941. It only m

Foreign Affairs committee  Since 2006 or so, we have been embracing the maritime side of that.

Foreign Affairs committee  One of the real difficulties is that Mr. Trump was so negative about the Republican foreign and defence policy community in the United States that the administration is having difficulty recruiting the people necessary to run these things. If you look at the list, you wonder to y

Foreign Affairs committee  The One Belt, One Road has a number of roads and a number of belts. Yes, indeed, one goes through Afghanistan, but Pakistan is the far more important bit of the belt in the road. The possibility of making some accommodation with China over Afghanistan does two things. First, it o

Foreign Affairs committee  One of the things the defence policy review needs to do is to address some of the concerns that not only Mr. Trump but the Americans generally have to consider. You perhaps know what's in the defence review, and I don't. What I would be looking for is a resolution of the issue of

Foreign Affairs committee  Can I just add a very quick comment here? It seems to me that part of what drives your question is, in fact, a very Canadian focus. In other words, we are not hearing in Canada the discussion, but if you go to the Asia-Pacific region, there is a lot of discussion about the role

Foreign Affairs committee  That's a very diplomatic answer.

Foreign Affairs committee  The diplomatic service in Canada made an excellent decision in 1974 in rejecting me—

Foreign Affairs committee  —so I actually don't have to be as diplomatic as Mr. Robertson does. I think the issue of the Russians and the Russian involvement in American politics is a story that has yet to be fully told. Despite the fact that there are strong forces in the United States seeking to squelch

Foreign Affairs committee  I think the question of middle-power leadership is a problematic one, mainly because in Canada there is a reluctance to embrace the ideas of middle-power leadership in those particular terms. As Colin suggested, even if we don't talk about middle powers any longer—and Canadian l

Foreign Affairs committee  That's a good question. I think the argument about American soft power on the decline needs to be questioned a bit. In fact, in terms of the response to Mr. McMaster and Mr. Cohen's denial of there being a global community and the rise of an administration that has indeed called

Foreign Affairs committee  Thank you very much for that question, Mr. Kent. I think the key here is to differentiate between these two accords. What the Canadian government did on the TPP was to indeed to pause, to wait for the reaction of others around the Pacific to see what would emerge from the gener

Foreign Affairs committee  Thank you very much, Chair. Let me begin by thanking the committee for inviting me to participate in its examination of the impact of the Trump administration. It's a particular pleasure to appear alongside my friend Colin Robertson. Given his diplomatic experience and expertis