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Defining the National Interest
Thank you to the attendees who participated in the
Defining the National Interest conference held on November 4-5, 2004 at the Lord
Elgin Hotel in Ottawa.
The two-day conference event was a follow up to the successful
Changing Canadian Foreign Policy conference held in Ottawa in the fall
of 2003. In this year of change and review, “Defining the
National Interest” focused on Canada’s international interests. The
conference format included panel discussions on Canada’s economic,
security and political interests led by academics, representatives
from NGOs, policy makers and business elites as well as working group
sessions. The focus of the conference was the result of the national
public opinion poll “Visions of Canadian Foreign Policy” conducted by
Dominion Institute and CDFAI in conjunction with the conference.
Defining the National
Interest was sponsored by: The Centre for Security and Defence
Studies at Carleton University; the Canadian Defence & Foreign Affairs
Institute; the Department of Political Studies and the Centre for
International Relations at Queen’s University; and l’Institut
québécois des hautes études internationales at Université Laval;
Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars: Canada Institute;
and the Dominion Institute.
CDFAI gratefully acknowledges the contributions of everyone who helped
make the Defining the National Interest conference a success!
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