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in Canada, North
America, and Beyond:
A Tribute to Stephen
Clarkson
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UQAM Universidade Federal de Santa
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Florianópolis, SC, Brazil
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Contents
Part I Themes
2 A Critical Appreciation of Stephen Clarkson: Looking
Back at His “Foundational Text” on Canadian
Foreign Policy 13
Andrew F. Cooper
3 A North American Quest for Progressive Policies
in an Era of Global Structural Changes 27
Michèle Rioux
v
vi CONTENTS
Index 165
Notes on Contributors
vii
viii NOTES ON CONTRIBUTORS
2000, and the Léger Fellow, Department of Foreign Affairs and Inter-
national Trade Canada in 1993–1994. Among his books are Diplomatic
Afterlives (Polity, 2014); Celebrity Diplomacy (Paradigm, 2007); and
Canadian Foreign Policy: Old Habits and New Directions (Prentice Hall,
1997).
André Donneur Professeur et chercheur senior, associé au Département
de science politique et au Centre de l’intégration et de la mondialisation
de l’Université du Québec à Montréal, a publié de très nombreux livres et
articles sur la politique étrangère canadienne, le système international tant
global que paneuropéen, le socialisme et la social-démocratie, les forces
transnationales.
Daniel Drache is Prof. Emeritus of Political Science and Senior Research
fellow, Robarts Centre for Canadian Studies, York University, Toronto.
His work focuses on the changing character of the globalization narrative,
and it’s economic, social, and cultural dimensions. He is the author of 20
books including Defiant Publics: The Unprecedented Reach of the Global
Citizen. His most recent book is One Road, Many Dreams: China’s Bold
Plan to Remake the Global Economy, co-edited with A.T. Kingsmith and
Duan Qi (Bloomsbury). Currently, he is completing a book length project
Have the Populists Won? The World Post Trump, Post Global Pandemic.
Robert G. Finbow is Professor of Political Science, Honours Coordi-
nator, and Deputy Director of the Jean Monnet European Union Centre
of Excellence at Dalhousie University. As well as being a graduate of
Dalhousie’s honours programme, he holds his M.A. from York Univer-
sity. He received his M.Sc. and doctorate from the London School of
Economics and Political Science. His current research focuses on the
socially responsible elements of trade agreements, especially labour and
social issues in NAFTA, and the EU. His focus recently has been on the
Canada-European Economic and Trade Agreement (CETA, especially the
implications for social policy and federalism).
Alberto Daniel Gago is Doctor en Ciencias Políticas y Sociales. Master
en Regional Development Planning. United Nations, The Netherlands.
Planificación Regional del Desarrollo. ILPES-CEPAL. United Nations,
Chile. Profesor e Investigador 1 de Tiempo Completo. Universidad
Nacional de San Juan y Universidad Nacional de Cuyo, Argentina.
Director Postgrado Centro de Estudios e Investigaciones Regionales
(CEIR-Mendoza) y Director Ejecutivo Centro Cuyo-Canadá—Argentina.
NOTES ON CONTRIBUTORS ix
M. G. Cohen
Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, Canada
e-mail: mcohen@sfu.ca
M. Rioux (B)
UQAM, Montreal, Québec, Canada
e-mail: rioux.michele@uqam.ca
D. Drache
Department of Politics, York University, Toronto, Canada
e-mail: drache@yorku.ca
A. Angel
Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina, Florianópolis, SC, Brazil
e-mail: alejandro.angel@posgrad.ufsc.br
References
Clarkson, Stephen. 1968. An Independent Foreign Policy for Canada. Toronto:
McClelland and Stewart.
Clarkson, Stephen. 1985. Canada and the Reagan Challenge: Crisis and
Adjustment, 1981–85 New Updated ed. Toronto: J. Lorimer.
Clarkson, Stephen. 2002. Uncle Sam and Us: Globalization, Neoconservatism,
and the Canadian State. Toronto: University of Toronto Press.
Clarkson, Stephen. 2005. The Big Red Machine: How the Liberal Party Dominates
Canadian Politics. Vancouver: UBC Press.
Clarkson, Stephen. 2008. Does North America Exist? Governing the Continent
After Nafta and 9/11. Toronto: University of Toronto Press.
Clarkson, Stephen, and Christina McCall. 1990. Trudeau and Our Times Vol. 1:
The Magnificent Obsession. Toronto: McClelland and Stewart.
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Canada and Mexico Construct Us Power. Toronto: University of Toronto
Press.
PART I
Themes
CHAPTER 2
Andrew F. Cooper
A. F. Cooper (B)
University Research Chair, Department of Political Science and Professor, The
Balsillie School of International Affairs, University of Waterloo, Waterloo,
ON, Canada
e-mail: acooper@uwaterloo.ca
unique features of the Canadian condition. What jumps out is his concern
with history and his blend of an analysis of the structure and over time an
appreciation of big personalities, albeit not always in a positive fashion.
These examples give some sense of how citizens have tried to correct the
constitutional imbalance that is constraining the regulatory state, exac-
erbating global inequalities and threatening the planet’s survival as a
hospitable environment for human life. But activism is not enough. If the
market’s capacity to self-destruct is to be contained, governments must get
in step with their citizenry to give clear priority to human emancipation.
(Clarkson 2010)
policy, from the Third Option to the National Energy Program (NEP)
related initiatives in the early 1980s.
Stephen was supportive of these efforts, and of course distressed when
the momentum for both (opening up the debate on Canadian foreign
policy and the implementation of robust policies) dried up first in the
Brian Mulroney years and then the Stephen Harper years. In doing so
he became a key source of memory in the championing of an open
autonomous foreign policy.
Yet as with any robust template for foreign policy there are points
of contradiction and gaps—if not in Stephen’s own thinking at least in
the way these approaches meshed with each other in practice. For the
paradox of moving towards an autonomous and robust policy template in
the early 1980s was that the actual policymaking process reverted to the
closed format that Stephen was so frustrated about in the 1960s. The only
difference was that instead of a generalist elite dominating foreign policy
it was now a centralizing cohort of technocrats inside central agencies.
The National Energy Program (NEP) shows off this problem of recon-
ciling dialogue among Canadians and the pursuit of robust policymaking.
As Stephen appreciated, the process of decision-making was secretive
not only in the context of public dialogue but bureaucratic interaction:
“remov[ed] from the normal process of interdepartmental consulta-
tion…[with DEA] ‘not informed until the last moment’” (Clarkson 1982,
79).
At the same time US retaliation showed itself to be no paper tiger.
With the US first (Reagan) administration in place, retaliatory pressures
increased, with the Pierre Trudeau Liberals shifting from the practices of
accommodation of the past to a “complacent and superior” position that
was premised on the notion that the “Californian cowboys” needed time
to learn their job (Clarkson 1982, 32).
The hard-line position of the Reagan administration was compli-
cated further by the fact that the Trudeau government had expected
some support for a global initiative on North–South relations. Not
only were these (unlikely hopes) dashed but Canada found itself under
pressure from Washington’s “institutionalized and unpredictable vulner-
ability” a doctrine of reciprocity that pushed the Trudeau government
(again to Stephen’s frustration) to seek again the “advocacy of indi-
rect means of influence” on issues such as Cruise missile testing. As
Stephen suggested—very much in the mindset of An Independent Foreign
Policy—this backtracking marked “a striking resemblance to the old
22 A. F. COOPER
Notes
1. See, for example, Appel (2015).
2. See, Metro (Toronto) (2015).
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CHAPTER 3
Michèle Rioux
M. Rioux (B)
UQAM, Montreal, Québec, Canada
e-mail: rioux.michele@uqam.ca
Yet, NAFTA soon proved to run and of breath. One structural element
shaping governance and regulation of economic integration in North
America is the importance of Asia and more specifically of China for
the region. In this context, the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) aimed
to transform and update NAFTA beyond the original three countries
involved to take into account the interregional and transpacific integra-
tion process. The negotiation of the TPP was a de facto renegotiation of
NAFTA which derailed as the United States pulled out of the agreement.
Clarkson considered that the TPP negotiations were a way to “mod-
ernize” NAFTA on the Trans-Pacific front.2 The TPP allowed the three
North American countries to negotiate new trade-related regulatory
issues with the strategic goal in mind to deal with interregional issues
and the development of new global value chains impacting on the region.
It meant that, instead of being a ménage à trois, North America was
immersed into an intense model of competition shaped by global value
chains across the Pacific (Rioux et al. 2015). These negotiations were
abandoned by the United States as President Trump decided, leaving
Canada and Mexico a new transpacific deal, the Comprehensive and
Progressive Agreement for Trans-Pacific Partnership (CPTPP).
It is in this context that, in 2017–18, the negotiation of a new
North American agreement occurred. Global value chains are now inte-
grated, with a strong Asian component. Many bilateral and regional trade
agreements have been negotiated by the United States, Canada, and
Mexico. The USMCA is catching up with competing agreement that have
outpaced NAFTA. But there is something new, the question of the rela-
tion between regional and multilateral trade agreements is more debated
as well as the contribution of trade negotiations to a sustainable trade
agenda that include labour and environmental norms.
3 A NORTH AMERICAN QUEST FOR PROGRESSIVE … 33
supranational legal and political institutions evolving over time that imply
a strong sense of community and identity that speaks above the national
and subnational layers of governance (Clarkson 2008).
More recently, the CETA, and the Comprehensive and Progres-
sive Agreement for Trans-Pacific Partnership (CPTPP) represent new
phenomena of inter-regionalism that has the potential to articulate devel-
oped regional integration models. When Canada and the EU negotiate
and implement an agreement like CETA, how does this impact on the
regional integration processes underway on both sides of the Atlantic?
The same question can be asked on the impact of the CPTPP on North
America and other partners. For some, this participates in a shift towards
the emergence of a third generation of integration processes that is
interregional in nature. New words, like comprehensive and partnership,
combine to define what Deblock depicted as an “interconnection” model
that is essentially geared towards regulatory cooperation and governance.
Deblock (2016, 9) argues:
In the current decade, two trends closely related to the new issues of
globalisation have begun to emerge. First, trade negotiations increasingly
revolve around cross-border trade, digital trade and value chains. Second,
they are characterised by their interoperability. Today’s globalisation does
not so much integrate as connect. And with interconnection, the problem
of international regulatory cooperation arises. This issue is now at the
core of discussions within the OECD, APEC or new trade agreements,
according to terms and principles very different from previous negotiations.
For Canada to play a key role within the international system as well as
in the world economy, one must learn from history and understand how
to steer collective action nationally and internationally towards a better
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while retaining a sense of history.
Whatever label one uses to describe the centrality of the past in limiting the
options available in the present which determine the shape of the future,
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are in such a constant flux, so much analysis has focused on immediate
happenings that “change” is typically presented with little attention being
paid to the historic roots of the reality experiencing change. (Preface in
English, Rioux et al. 2015)
Notes
1. Stephen Clarkson was a very good speaker, an innovative researcher, a
respected professor and a human being with a fantastic personality. His
influence will be long lasting.
2. At a Montreal conference, “NAFTA at 20”, CEIM, UQAM, Maison du
développement durable.
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en ole ajatellut… Sekin on totta mitä sanot pikku Armaasta. Ja sitten
vielä tämä viimeinen. Voi Anni, minä koetin uskoa sen jumalan
tahdoksi, peittääkseni oman rikokseni, tukehuttaakseni omantuntoni
äänen…
ANNI hämmästyen.
ANNI keskeyttäen.
LIISA
ANNI tuskallisesti.
ANNI väristen.
Niin, sitten tuli mieleeni: kyllä jumala häntä suojelee… Ja jos jotain
tapahtuu, niin se on silloin jumalan tahto, eikä sille voi mitään… Voi
minua… vaikka minä hämärästi tunsin, ettei jumala sekaannu
tuollaiseen asiaan, jolleivät ihmiset estä… niin koetin uskoa toista,
ajatella, että kaikki on jumalan kädessä… Niin kammottavan musta
minun sydämeni on… Voi minua kurjaa, mitä minä teen… mihin
menen…?
ANNI