Book Launch: “Getting Back in the Game- A Foreign Policy Playbook for Canada“

Has Canada lost its place in the world? Are we destined for a future as middle power, denied a seat at the “grown-ups table“? Some would argue yes—that decades of neglect and inattention have rendered Canadian foreign policy ineffective at best, and non-existent at worst. Paul Heinbecker—career diplomat and permanent ambassador to the UN—strongly disagrees. The golden days of Pearson may be long gone, he argues (and perhaps they weren’t quite as “golden“ as we’d all like to remember), but Canada still has a role to play. In Getting Back in the Game, Heinbecker presents his compelling vision for the future of Canadian foreign policy—a future in which Canada can work both with the United States and apart from it; in which our government can take a stand and effect change on issues of the day, from climate change to the Middle East; in which this country has a key role to play in the rehabilitation of global governance.