Book description
Advance Praise for Doing the Continental:
Everyone has opinions about the state of Canada-U. S. relations, but
few have the knowledge to provide informed judgments. Professor Dyment
happily falls into the latter category. While some of the
prescriptions are controversial, this concise book has been carefully
thought out and provides excellent grist for the Canadian policy mill.
Doing the Continental is a must read for those interested in
Canadian-American relations. Michael Kergin, Canadas Ambassador to the
United States, 20002005
When President Barack Obama sat at his desk for the first time in
the Oval Office in January 2009, one of the farthest things from his
mind was Canada. On Capitol Hill the whirling pursuit of interests was
intense. In Ottawa, Canadas senior officials were too preoccupied to
appreciate that the nations neighbours to the south werent paying
attention to the affairs and concerns of the Great White North.
Canadas relations with the United States are broad and deep, and
with Obama in the White House, the two countries are about to enter
what could be a new era of hope and renewal. From water and energy
policy to defence, environmental strategy, and Arctic sovereignty,
David Dyment provides an astute, pithy analysis of the past, present,
and future continental dance between two countries that have much in
common, yet often step on each others feet.
"Dr. Dyment deserves great credit, as a professed centre-left
Canadian of a pretty conventional hue, for seeing that the United States
is not an evil country foaming and heaving with covetousness for the
pure snow maiden of the North."
David Dyment teaches political
science at the University of Ottawa and at Carleton University, has
served on the staff of the governor general of Canada, and was a
senior policy adviser in the Department of Foreign Affairs and
International Trade. As a media commentator, he has been heard on CTV,
CBC Television and Radio, Radio-Canada (in French), and BBC. He
received his doctorate from the Université de Montréal.
