Derek H. Burney - Brave New Canada: Meeting the Challenge of a Changing World

McGill-Queens University Press
Montreal & Kingston London Ithaca

McGill-Queens University Press 2014

ISBN 978-0-7735-4398-0 (cloth)

ISBN 978-0-7735-9621-4 (e PDF )

ISBN 978-0-7735-9622-1 (e PUB )

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McGill-Queens University Press acknowledges the support of the Canada Council for the Arts for our publishing program. We also acknowledge the financial support of the Government of Canada through the Canada Book Fund for our publishing activities.

Library and Archives Canada Cataloguing in Publication

Burney, Derek H. (Derek Hudson), 1939, author

Brave new Canada : meeting the challenge of a changing world / Derek H. Burney and Fen Osler Hampson.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Issued in print and electronic formats.

ISBN 978-0-7735-4398-0 (bound). ISBN 978-0-7735-9621-4 (e PDF ). ISBN 978-0-7735-9622-1 (e PUB )

1. Canada Foreign economic relations Forecasting. 2. Canada Foreign relations 21st century Forecasting. 3. Canada Economic policy 21st century Forecasting. 4. Canada Social policy Forecasting. I. Hampson, Fen Osler, author II. Title.

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C2014-901851-7

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by The Honourable Brad Wall

I get the feeling that if policymakers feel like they have been grabbed by the lapels and shaken by this book and its compelling, even urgent, message, the authors will be pleased but not satisfied until we start doing something about it.

Mark them well. Their message is quite simply that Canada must not only aggressively engage with the emerging markets of the Asia-Pacific and the developing world, but that we also need a wholesale reorientation of our foreign policy and national mindset to secure Canadas future in a rapidly changing world.

Unparalleled levels of cooperation between the federal government, the provinces, and the private sector, along with persistent leadership to secure Canadas future, are the key messages of this timely book.

In the fall of 2013, I had just returned from a trade mission to Asia when I learned that Canada and the European Union ( EU ) had announced an agreement-in-principle on the Comprehensive Economic and Trade Agreement ( CETA ). This is a vitally important deal for Saskatchewans uranium industry. It would lift ownership restrictions for EU-based companies, which could mean $2.5 billion in investment and the creation of another 1,200 jobs. It is also a good deal for our beef, bison, and pork producers, and agriculture in general. And the consensus seems to be its a pretty good deal for Canada generally.