Arrangement: Foreign Policy

Canada Dept: It is most unlikely this arrangement will eclipse our own foreign policy in any way, as the opposition warns. But nor is it quite the small housekeeping matter akin to sharing printers and a supplies cupboard that the Conservatives seek to portray it as, according to CBC. This is the rather grand theory that, in these turbulent times, a new network of like-minded nations is coalescing around certain core members the U.S., Britain, Canada, Australia and New Zealand who share, aside from language, a set of values, a common law heritage and long-existing networks of military and civilian co-operation. DIPLOMACY Map: Canada's consular co-operation Arrangements with Australia, other countries already in place The week's flap over proposed new Canada-Britain embassy sharing seemed to read both far too much into the agreement, and too little. What it may well portend, though, is yet another incremental step by this particular Canadian government and Britain towards what academics call "the Anglosphere," a concept that has fascinated its advocates across the English-speaking world for the past 20 years or so. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.