Q: How have the policies and positions of the Trump administration impacted Canada’s relationship with China? A: Chinese foreign policy has been changing under Party General Secretary Xi Jinping. Under Obama there had been a belief that China could be brought into...

The emergence of Sino-American rivalry is a system-level feature of and force in global politics, however, should be the impetus for a re-examination of Canada’s Indo-Pacific relations. Canada needs a more comprehensive and interlinked Indo-Pacific approach – one that...

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Introduction The CDA Institute, in partnership with NDIA and NORAD/USNORTHCOM, hosted a three-part virtual roundtable focused on NORAD modernization. The goal was to allow experts from industry, academia, and government to break down silos and engage in direct...

Roman Waschuk Ambassador of Canada to Ukraine (2014-19), and Serbia, Montenegro and North Macedonia (2011-14) Discussions about Canada’s role in the world often start out with lofty ideal constructs, and end with gloomy conclusions about lack of capacity and/or...

Dear Members of the Conference of Defence Associations Community, As many have noticed in past months, our programmes have evolved considerably in the context of the pandemic. We’ve put together some very successful webinars that thousands of viewers enjoyed in over...

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Introduction NDIA/CDAI hosted the second of three webinars on 26 August 2020, intended to examine key capability requirements for the modernization of continental defence under auspice of North American Aerospace Defense Command (NORAD). The goal was to allow experts...

Introduction The CDA Institute, in partnership with NDIA and NORAD/USNORTHCOM hosted a three-part virtual roundtable focused on NORAD modernization.  The goal was to allow experts from industry, academia, and government to break down silos and engage in direct...

Q: In what ways has Australia’s defence policy changed in the new strategic outlook? How has China responded? Peter Jennings: Australia has a tradition of producing what we call “defence white papers” every five years or so. [This one] is essentially a policy update...

  Q: What is the state of Canadian American relations and how can Canada successfully manage this relationship if current trends in U.S foreign and domestic policy continue? Should Canada look to other allies for cooperation? Roland Paris: The United States is...

Q: what are Russia and china’s ambitions in the Arctic and what steps are they taking to secure these interests? Is cooperation with Russia in the Arctic still feasible? Stephanie Pezard: Russia and China have very different ambitions in the Arctic, which are...

Q: There have been Russian hacking attempts aimed at US, British and Canadian COVID-19 vaccine research. How has Canada dealt with this and what do you recommend we do so we can protect intellectual property and national sovereignty against these intrusions?   A: This...

  Dear members of the growing Conference of Defence Associations community,   Already, a year has passed since I joined the Conference of Defence Associations Institute. It has been quite a ride. In a good way. Before I dive into all the things I'm excited...

1) Ambassador Horak, you were sent back to Canada on a tweet. Is the medium the message? Tweets are not an effective tool of diplomacy. “Twitterplomacy” (as I have come to call it) is PR aimed at supporters or the already converted. By their very nature and limited...

Roger Hilton, GLOBSEC Security and Defence Fellow In the classic film The Hunt for Red October, Soviet Admiral Ramius addresses his crew prior to diving and declares, “They (the West) will tremble again at the sound of our silence”.  The essence of the quote could not...

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  A new survey conducted by the Conference of Defence Associations Institute and Ipsos Canada shows that 9 in 10 Canadians (88%) believe that the Canadian Armed Forces have a role to play in supporting civilian authorities manage and mitigate the COVID-19...

The 2008 Manley Report highlighted significant machinery of government obstacles to the effective conduct of the Afghanistan mission, and in particular the operations of the interdepartmental Kandahar Provincial Reconstruction Team (KPRT) which the Panel called “a...