Unfinished business: The IPS in retrospective

Published December 15, 2010

Paul Martin's International Policy Statement, released almost six years ago, was a considerable contribution to Canadian foreign-policy making.

For the first time, a leader of Canada recognized that a pooling of resources and capabilities served as the best and most cost-effective approach to tackling the complex and interrelated problems facing the world. Such thinking was not unique. The UK and the...