Introduction With each new prime minister coming into office in Canada.

Introduction

With each new prime minister coming into office in Canada, beholders of Canadian foreign policy have become accustomed to calls for a foreign policy review: Pierre Elliott Trudeau in 1968 Brian Mulroney in 1984 Jean Chretien in 1993 and on the subject of taking office in December 2003 Prime Minister Paul Martin. Foreign policy reviews are instruments utilized by way of Canada's leaders to differentiate their directions from previous ones, signaling a "regime change" in Ottawa, not merely to Canadians at home if it be not that also to world capitals abroad, particularly Washington.

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