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OTTAWA, March 29, 2010  —  The University of Ottawa’s Centre for International Policy Studies (CIPS) is releasing a report today that concludes Canada has been too slow to react to seismic changes in international affairs. The document is designed to generate much-needed public debate on the future of Canada’s foreign policy.

Titled Rethinking Canada's International Priorities, the report presents essays by ten thoughtful Canadians on future priorities for Canada's international policy and offers a wide range of policy options. The authors also state that, as the world is quickly changing, our political leaders have little to say about how Canada should respond.

“A historic shift in global economic and political power is underway. As a trade-dependent country, Canada urgently needs to position itself for success in a differently configured global economy, and to help facilitate a peaceful transition to a post-unipolar world that protects the rule-based system of open trade and commerce,” says Roland Paris, director of the Centre for International Policy Studies.

CIPS partnered with both the Graduate School of Public and International Affairs at the University of Ottawa and the Norman Paterson School of International Affairs at Carleton University to produce the report.

The integral version of Rethinking Canada's International Priorities can be consulted online.