Implementing Harper's Americas Vision

Published April 29, 2009

A year and a half into his first term as prime minister, Stephen Harper undertook a tour of key Latin American countries in July 2007 that included a major stop in Chile.

Canada and Chile had signed a free trade agreement in 1996, the first such agreement with a South American country, and for Mr. Harper, it seemed the perfect stage from which to unveil a major pillar of his government's newly-formed...