Canadian Foreign Affairs and National Defence
EXTERNAL AFFAIRS
Department of Foreign Affairs and International Trade
- Mandate of the Department of Foreign Affairs and International Trade
- The DFAIT Library
- Trade Negotiations and Agreements
- Countries and Regions of interest to Canada
- Canadian Foreign Policy
- Global Issues, Peace and Security
- Trade and Economic Analysis
Canadian
International Development Agency
Canadian International
Trade Tribunal
International Development
Research Centre (IDRC)
Parliamentary review of foreign policy matters is carried out by the House of
Commons committee on Foreign
Affairs and International Trade and the Senate committee on Foreign
Affairs.
Strategis
Canada provides a range of information about international trade from Industry
Canada, including various reports
and statistics about Canada-US
trade.
CANADIAN GOVERNMENT DOCUMENTS ON EXTERNAL AFFAIRS
Foreign Policy - position papers and press releases by topic
Treaties
PROVINCIAL GOVERNMENT SITES DEALING WITH INTERNATIONAL AFFAIRS
Alberta
Intergovernmental Relations: International Section
New Brunswick Intergovernmental Affairs
Relations internationales - Quebec - see more at their French-language site
INTERNATIONAL ORGANIZATIONS
The Association of South East Asian Nations
International
Monetary Fund
The
NAFTA Secretariat
NATO Homepage
- NATO Agencies
- NATO Consultation, Command, and Control Agency
- Supreme Headquarters Allied Powers Europe
Organization of American States
Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development
United Nations
World Bank
OTHER USEFUL SITES ON INTERNATIONAL AFFAIRS
Amnesty International
Asia
Pacific Foundation of Canada
Canadian
Foreign Policy and Foreign Relations on the Internet - from Iza Laponce at the UBC Library
Canadian
Institute of International Affairs
Canadian Institute for
Strategic Studies
Centre
for Foreign Policy Studies - Dalhousie University
Discovery Institute
International Affairs Network, WWW Virtual Library
Institut Quebecois des hautes etudes internationales
The Norman Paterson School of International Affairs
Project
Ploughshares
Stratnet: University of Calgary
Strategic Studies Program
NATIONAL DEFENCE & SECURITY
The Department of National Defence
- Canadian Forces College
- Chief of Defence Staff
- Current Operations
- Defence Policy
- Defence and Parliament
- Judge Advocate General
- Ombudsman for the Canadian Forces
- The L.B. Pearson Canadian International Peacekeeping Training Centre
Read the Chief of Defence Staff's Annual Report on the State of the Canadian Forces submitted to Parliament.
National security investigations and analyses are carried out in the Canadian government by:
- Canadian
Security Intelligence Service (CSIS)
- Security Intelligence Review Committee reviews the work of CSIS.
- Inspector General of the Canadian Security Intelligence Service
-
Communications
Security Establishment
- Office of the Communications Security Establishment Commissioner reviews the work of the CSE.
- Bill Robinson's - unofficial CSE information (courtesy: Archive.org)
Visit the Safe Canada web site for links to various federal organizations concerned with national security and emergencies, Public Safety and Emergency Preparedness Canada.
Read the federal government policy paper Securing an Open Society: Canada's National Security Policy issued in April 2004 (in pdf), and also the PCO document, The Canadian Security and Intelligence Community.
For an analysis of the many problems
inherent in ensuring the effective control and accountability of the various
national security agencies involved in national security, see Chapter
27 of the 1996 Report of the Auditor General.
Canadian Association for Intelligence and Security Studies
GOVERNMENT DOCUMENTS ON NATIONAL DEFENCE & SECURITY
Overview of Military Justice and Courts Martial
- QR&O - the Queen's Regulations and Orders are the basic legal framework for the Canadian Forces.