Preparing for the Asian Century

Published August 17, 2011

With Prime Minister Stephen Harper expected to visit China in November, there is at last a recognition that China, indeed all of Asia, needs to be a much higher priority when we think about Canada's future in a fast-changing world.

For the past 25 years we have been preoccupied with North America, with negotiation of the Canada-US Free Trade Agreement, its enlargement to include Mexico in the North American...