With one eye on the upcoming March 23 meeting of George W. Bush, Vicente Fox, and Paul Martin in Texas, a tri-national task force has just recommended an assortment of aggressive steps toward a bold new kind of North America. If the press reports are to be believed, there is little real appetite for such […]

The text of Paul Martin’s December 6 speech to the Canada-China Business Council in Toronto has given Canadians some initial glimpse of their federal government’s emerging thinking on the new Chinese role in Canadian development. And with the US magazine Business Week‘s recent talk about the “massive shift in economic power” towards China now underway, […]

The still quite recent news that the state-owned China Minmetals Corp. (in effect the government of China) wants to buy the venerable Canadian resource sector firm Noranda Inc. has signaled a bold and even somewhat unsettling new phase in the apparently never-ending debate about Canadian national economic development. To help move things along, the November […]