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Paul Heinbecker has a compelling vision for the future of Canadian foreign policy and argues that Canada still has a role to play in the rehabilitation of global governance. Has Canada lost its place in the world? Are we destined for a future as a middle power, denied a seat at the grown-ups table ? Some would argue yes, that decades of neglect and inattention have rendered Canadian foreign policy ineffective at best and non-existent at worst. Paul Heinbecker disagrees. The golden days of Lester B. Pearson may be long gone, he contends (and perhaps they weren't quite as golden as we'd all like to remember), but Canada still has a part to play. In Getting Back in the Game, Heinbecker presents his compelling vision for the future of Canadian foreign policy, a future in which Canada can work both with the United Nations and apart from it; in which our government can take a stand and effect change on issues of the day from climate change to the Middle East; in which this country has a key role to play in the rehabilitation of global governance.

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A career diplomat, Paul Heinbecker has served both at home and abroad, in positions as varied as Director of the United States General Relations Division, Chief Foreign Policy Advisor to Brian Mulroney, and as the head of the Canadian delegation to Kyoto. In 2000, Heinbecker was appointed Ambassador of Canada to the United Nations. He is the inaugural director of the Centre for Global Relations at Wilfrid Laurier University and is a Distinguished Fellow at the Centre for International Governance Innovation (CIGI) in Waterloo.

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