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Speeches

• December 8, 2005 — Jackson Executive Lecture Forum
  "The President proclaimed: 'Our two people are one family and always will be.' In response, Prime Minister Martin said simply, 'That’s what neighbours do, that’s what friends do.'"
• November 17, 2005 — 18th Biennial Conference of the Association for Canadian Studies in the United States
  "When conducting international affairs, the greatest advantage to both province and national governments accrues when we get our act together, when our messaging and objective(s) are the same even if we speak with many voices and in different fora."
• November 3, 2005 — Canada-US Fulbright Program Dinner
  "...to develop better understanding between Canada and the United States through the encouragement of scholarship, intellectual discipline and leadership development."
• November 2, 2005 — Seymour Lipset Lecture on Democracy
  "Canada, he concluded, is much more a social democracy with greater emphasis on family and personal security. America is more committed to competitive meritocratic values, institutions and behaviour."
• October 25, 2005 — Promoting Trade and Investment in Atlantic Canada
  "More than 80 per cent of Atlantic Canada exports (ranging from New Brunswick at 90% to Newfoundland and Labrador at 50%) are destined for U.S. markets."
• September 20, 2005 — Dinner Address Sponsored by Enbridge and the Canadian Defence and Foreign Affairs Institute
  "When in Washington play by Washington rules."
• September 13, 2005 — Welcome to the Greenville and Spartenberg Chambers of Commerce
  "That map in the corner gives graphic illustration to what is the biggest and most successful trade relationship in the world."
• August 11, 2005 — Address to the Council of the Federation
  "The relationships between provinces and states, especially those between premiers and governors, are the hidden wiring of the Canadian American relationship."
• August 4, 2005 — CD Howe Institute Remarks
  "...making the case for Canada on Capitol Hill and the work of the Washington Advocacy Secretariat."
• August 3, 2005 — Colin Robertson Interviewed on John Gormley Live (CJME-AM)
  "...Part of the objective is to have Americans tell our story... we have a really good story to tell, we just have to get out and tell it and Canadians need to know what we’re doing because when they talk with their American cousins or American friends or American customers, they have to tell this story..."
• August 2, 2005 — Colin Robertson Interviewed on Newsline (CKRM-AM)
  "... Americans will give us a hearing and listen to what we have to say and then they’ll change their views, but we gotta be out there. We can’t just let back ..."
• August 1, 2005 — Notes for the Opening Address to the Midwest State Legislators Conference
  "We are bound by ties of blood, belief and belonging to the land."
• June 16, 2005 — Senior and Managing Partners Reception
  "...the challenge we face is not Canada versus the US but rather North America versus the world."
• May 18, 2005 — First Nations/Aboriginal Women's Film Festival
  "The Far North... is our frontier, and we view it similar to the way the West had been seen in the United States."
• March 16, 2005 — Public Policy Forum Remarks
  "The Secretariat is a child of 9-11."

Publications

• "Working With America After 9/11", From the Great War into the Global Village, c2005
• "Getting Noticed in Washington: The Hard Part of Canada's Job", Policy Options Politiques, vol. 26, no. 9, November 2005
• "Why the Moose Must Roar", Canada and the United States: A Relationship at a Crossroads?, Bison Paper 7, December 2005

Resources

• 2005 State Trade Fact Sheets
• Think Tank Watch

Useful links

• Canadian Embassy
• Connect2Canada
• Canadian Ally

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