Defining Canadian security: continuities and discontinuities (1).

Introduction

With every new prime minister coming into office in Canada, observers of Canadian foreign policy have become accustomed to calls for a foreign policy review: Pierre Elliott Trudeau in 1968, Brian Mulroney in 1984, Jean Chretien in 1993, and upon taking office in December 2003, Prime Minister Paul Martin. Foreign policy reviews are instruments utilized by Canada's leaders to differentiate their governments from previous ones, signaling a "regime change" in Ottawa, not only to Canadians at home but also to world capitals abroad, particularly Washington. ...

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