Open to all, no registration required.*

 

13:30 – Opening Remarks

• Justin Massie (UQAM): Looking Back to Lead Forward: Canada’s Historical Playbook for a New Geopolitical Era

13:45-15:15 – Leadership, Bureaucracy, and Alliance Politics in Canadian Strategic Decisions

• David Haglund (Queen’s University): From Farce to Tragedy? Canada, NATO, and the Trump ‘Greenland Conundrum’
• Nicolas-François Perron (UQAM): Challenging the Pearsonian Consensus: Trudeau’s Defence Review and the Limits of Counter-Strategic Culture
• Émile Lambert-Deslandes (Queen’s University): Death by Bureaucracy? The Mulroney Government, Nuclear Submarines, and the Art of Playing for Time
• Stéfanie von Hlatky (Queen’s University) & Thomas Juneau (University of Ottawa): From friendship motive to absolute loyalty: Lessons from Canada’s participation in NATO’s campaign in Libya

15:15-15:30 – Break

15:30-17:00 – Crisis, Pressure, and Rearmament: Canada’s Recurring Defence Dilemmas

• Stéphane Roussel (ENAP), David Albert (ENAP) and Alexane Dumoulin (ENAP): ReArmCanada: Lessons from 1914, 1939 and 1950
• Joseph T. Jockel (St. Lawrence University): Canada Rearms under Allied Pressure: Lesson from 1950-51 for 2025-26
• Justin Massie (UQAM): Canada’s Participation in the Korean War and Lessons for its Current Strategic Trilemma
• Kim Richard Nossal (Queen’s University): The End of the Special Relationship? Canada-U.S. Relations in the Trump Era

17:00-17:30 – Closing Remarks

• Philippe Beaulieu-Brossard (Canadian Forces College): Historical lessons for Strategy-Making

 

 

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*note: Attendance to this event does not count towards the Emerging Leaders program.