Military Implications of Canada's New Latin American Policy.

摘要

In November of 1989, the Canadian Government announced that it had conducted a review of Canadian foreign relations with the countries in the southern portion of the western hemisphere. As a result, a single cohesive foreign policy for the region based upon trade, development and closer multilateral relations was enunciated. The government moved quickly to join the Organization of American States and to undertake initiatives in Latin America. This approach to the region reversed almost 80 years of cautious and often indecisive Latin American relations. The Canadian Armed Forces have always been used as an instrument of national domestic and foreign policy. This paper outlines the new policy and the potential military implications of such an approach to the region.