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Although the decision to make Canada a full-fledged member of the Organization of American States (OAS) may not have been the most significant policy orientation taken by the Mulroney government, it nevertheless was an important strategic moment in the relationship between Canada and the Americas. Most analyses of the Canadian decision to join the OAS point to domestic factors as the key determinant. This paper argues that the domestic factors identified in the literature would not have led to the decision if it were not for the international context that prevailed in the second half of the 1980s. It is in this international context that the main source of explanation for the Canadian decision can be found.
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This paper's objective is to bring forth some elements which confirm the following hypothesis : Canada is consigned to continentalism, namely to economic and cultural integration with the United States though this fact is shrouded in a Canadian nationalism of sorts. The continentalist mentality is rooted in the history of British North America, inhabited mostly by refugees from America who have remained inherently "Yankees" in spite of their anti-americanism. The Confederation itself is based on a sort of complicity with the United States. More recently there were talks of a "North American nationality", and continentalism both cultural and economic has come to be seen as a 'force of nature" which the governments, at the most, put into a chanelling process. Still, it is possible for Canadian nationalism to exist provided it does not go beyond the threshold whence it would run headlong into the continental mentality. Canada has defined itself through an international or non-national perspective far too long for today's nationalism not to remain weak and poorly established. But the Americans whose "manifest destiny" has succeeded in spreading over Canada without even their having tried to hoist their flag there find it to their advantage to maintain some form of Canadian sovereignty. Canada as a "friendly nation" can be of use to Washington. That is why there are almost as many advocates for Canada's independence in the United States as there are north of the border. Canadian nationalism can thus further the interests of some Canadian elites without seriously prejudicing continental integration which can very well afford not to be set up into formalized structures.
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Thirty-five paintings executed by Théophile Hamel for the Canadian government are reproduced here for the first time. Various authors from 1922 up to 1970 insisted that these paintings had been destroyed in fires in governments buildings. This mistake was rectified in 1970 by R. H. Hubbard. In 1975 and 1976, R. V. published the catalogue of the paintings including their location. Problems related to their size and the reflections in the glass panes covering them prevented their being photographed before 1981.
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This article examines an often-overlooked dimension of Canada-United States relations : relations between Canadian and American public servants. Meetings between political leaders of Canada and the US may make front-page headlines, but it is the myriad of networks and interconnections between Canadian and American public servants that constitute the lion's share of bilateral activity. Notwithstanding the multitude of daily cross-border, inter-departmental, and inter-agency interactions, there has been relatively little systematic theoretical or empirical attention to the public sector dimension of Canada-US relations. Public administration scholars tend to train their sights on the domestic level and pay little or no attention to the public management dimension of international affairs. A recently edited volume studying contemporary Canadian public administration does not examine these relations. International relations scholars, for their part, tend to oversimplify domestic politics and policy institutions. This text contributes to bridging this gap in the literature. It builds on the concept of transgovernmentalism, relations between legislative, executive, regulatory, and judicial players with their international counterparts. It examines the mechanisms and processes by which public sector players interact across borders (e.g., informal relations, formal agreements, joint organizations, etc.). The article explores the relationship between the degree of bilateral policy coordination in a policy field or issue area and the mechanisms of transgovernmental activity characterizing cross-border relations in that policy domain.
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The Canadian population is characterized by a pluralism and a diversity of interests and loyalties which cleary have a territorial basis. It constitutes a key fact of Canadian geography. This situation combined with the decisive issue of division of powers lies at the heart of the problem of Canadian unity, clearly establishing its geopolitical nature.
Keywords: Géographie politique, pluralisme, régionalisme, intégration, Canada, Québec, Political geography, pluralism, regionalism, integration, Canada, Quebec
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