POLI 319 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Human Security
13 May 2018
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POLI 342
02.16.2018
JEAN CHRÉTIEN
Thought that Canada was too close with the US,
wanted to focus on Canadian Interests, domestic
affairs
•Distance from Americans at first but eventually
developed relationship with Clinton.
•Still wanted to move beyond North America
His mentor was P. Trudeau.
He was seen as responsible for decline of Canada’s
presence in world affairs. He was trying to rebuild our
economy with a tight budget
→ pinch-penny diplomacy: internationalism lite, talking
about world affairs but not doing much..
He gave a lot of leverage to his foreign affairs
ministers
Axworthy: promoted UN agenda of human security
•Chrétien would ask him to go out and collaborate, to
keep the “ear of the world”
•so, as opposed to Mulroney, had the ear of the world
more than the ear of the US
John Manly: mandated to deal with the Americans during
9/11 (the day of). It was a Canadian in charge of NORAD
at the time it had failed and North America had come
under attack. So this was a very tense time.
•border security, reactions to US’s reaction (thickening
the border)
•intelligent border, had to make sure that changes ould
be beneficial to Canada as well as the US
•throughout all of this, Chrétien is really in the
background. He does not want to work with Bush, which
was clear in his US discourse. So he was hands off,
leaving him to work
Bill Graham: foreign minister and defence minister for
Martin after
•managed implementation of NA security with the US
•more problems with the US — news that US was in our
waters in the North. Started rhetoric war on Arctic Policy
which Harper would pick up later
•managing rhetorical war between Bill Graham and
foreign minister of Denmark about “Hands Island” near
Greenland. We’ve been trying to claim it for a long time
(with flags), not usually a big deal. It became tied to the
growing concern with Arctic Sovereignty sparked by the
US. Graham and his successors eventually worked this
out.
Main Challenges: promote internationalist foreign policy &
deal with the US.
Chretien created Team Canada delegations: brought
together provinces, get on a plane, go somewhere and
“Sell Canada”.
•shows his “Captain” tendencies
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Document Summary
Thought that canada was too close with the us, wanted to focus on canadian interests, domestic affairs: distance from americans at rst but eventually developed relationship with clinton, still wanted to move beyond north america. He was seen as responsible for decline of canada"s presence in world affairs. He was trying to rebuild our economy with a tight budget. Pinch-penny diplomacy: internationalism lite, talking about world affairs but not doing much He gave a lot of leverage to his foreign affairs ministers. John manly: mandated to deal with the americans during. It was a canadian in charge of norad at the time it had failed and north america had come under attack. He does not want to work with bush, which was clear in his us discourse. So he was hands off, leaving him to work. Bill graham: foreign minister and defence minister for.
