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In Roosevelt's Bright Shadow:
Presidential Addresses About Canada from Taft to Obama in Honour of FDR's 1938 Speech at Queen's University
Edited by Arthur Milnes
The Canadian–American relationship is a special one: both countries often claim that the world’s longest unprotected border they share represents a relationship that is defined by high levels of economic dependence, a series of partnerships addressing national defense, and the psychological entanglement that comes with sharing a continent.
There is a certain perception that the newest American President is someone who will encourage more cross-border friendship and repair some of the strained relationships between the US and other countries. President Obama’s first visit to Canada was not a particularly good time to gauge the accuracy of these perceptions: lasting less than a day, his visit involved no state speeches or public addresses and did little to suggest what his strategy with regards to Canada would be. During the President’s visit he was presented with a history of the approach to Canada–U.S. relations favoured by the former President that Obama is most often compared to: Franklin Delano Roosevelt.
In Roosevelt’s Bright Shadow is a collection of speeches from Canadian Prime Ministers and American Presidents— from Nixon to Reagan to Trudeau and Mulroney— as they each helped form and change this important alliance over the course of the twentieth and early-twenty-first centuries. Beginning with Franklin Delano Roosevelt’s historic speech at Queen’s University, where he broke from America’s strict isolationist policy and pledged to protect Canada in the event of attack, the speech addressed Canadian–American partnership in both times of war and economic crisis: both issues that resonate at this point in history as much as at the time of his speech. Editor Arthur Milnes, a distinguished political commentator, has collected both these historic documents and the reflections of those who were present, creating an acute and illuminating account of both this relationship and its future.
Milnes recently wrote for the Ottawa Citizen on an address of Nixon’s; he is also the editor of Politics of Purpose, 40th Anniversary Edition, and of the forthcoming The Authentic Voice of Canada.
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