Canada in a Changing World

Abstract

NEARLY ceptions of the world and of Canada's place in it and of the capacity of Canada's political leaders to cope with it has made it evident to all shades of informed opinion that the world outside Canada's borders has been changing rapidly; and that some drastic rethinking of all major aspects of Canadian policy, domestic as well as international, is required if Canada is to emerge from the disheartening economic and political stagnation of the past five years and regain the upward path of prosperity and growth. There is no more important subject to discuss in Canada at the present time than the place of the country in a changing world. The swift march of events, especially the devaluation and the austerity crisis, has already overtaken the arguments which I expressed in a series of lectures delivered in Ottawa in February, 1962 ;x and I should like to present them in a more currently relevant form.