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David Emerson: Canada’s Five Frontiers: Time for a Change

David Emerson: Canada’s Five Frontiers: Time for a Change
Canadian and American flags fly near Ambassador Bridge at the Canada-U.S. border crossing in Windsor, Ont., on March 21, 2020. The Canadian Press/Rob Gurdebeke
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Canada, a country with a smaller population than California, features the second-largest land mass in the world, thousands of kilometres of coastal shoreline, water, and natural resources in abundance, and a huge arctic geography where, for over a century, there was minimal predatory interest from other countries. But most Canadians live and earn a living within a few hundred kilometres of the U.S. border. We’ve enjoyed easy prosperity doing business directly or indirectly with Americans, to whom we’ve defaulted to do the heavy lifting on defence and security.

David Emerson
David Emerson
Author
David Emerson is the former MP for Vancouver Kingsway. He served as minister of industry, minister of international trade, and minister of foreign affairs under two prime ministers. He writes here for the Frontier Centre for Public Policy (FCPP.org).