Capt. Barry Sheehy CD.

An accomplished speaker and author, Mr. Sheehy‘s works have appeared along side of those of Presidents Clinton and Bush, Alan Greenspan, Robert Rubin and business leaders such as Lou Gerstner, Jack Welch, and Michael Dell, Edwards Deming, Stephen R. Covey, Rosabeth Moss Kanter, Gary Hamel, Peter Senge and Tom Peters. His speaking tours have taken him to Europe, Latin America, the Middle East, India, Singapore, Hong Kong, Mexico, Canada, and the United States. He is the author of six books.
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It raises the question of whether economic integration with the US will lead inevitably to political integration as Sir John A. Macdonald feared? Only time will tell but one way or the other, the shift has begun
But the transition will not be without pain. Among the oxen to be gored would be supply management, energy regulations, cultural (CanCon) rules, banking and financial regulations, shipping regulations, and interprovincial trade barriers;
Given history this is the perfect venue for US/Canada collaboration on Arctic defense…a point of departure for a possible grand bargain;
What happens next is anyone’s guess, but no one should assume we are in for anything but a bumpy ride
It is seventy years since the signing of the original Coal and Steel Common Community. We can only wonder what Robert Schuman would make of it all today
Then along comes a new American administration, focused like a laser on North American security. Suddenly we are in a new world with new priorities. And not a moment too soon.
History proves democracies can bring forth the leadership needed for the times if allowed to operate unhindered
Lessons of History
Canada’s military needs a complete rethink and retrofit…and the sooner the better. This rethink must be rooted in traditional military values
“Newton’s third law: for every force there is an equal counterforce generated in nature”
The fact that Saudi Arabia is moving away from the dollar as a means of purchasing oil should have everyone in Washington running around with their hair on fire
Don’t count on cooler heads to save us. Look at the world stage, where do you see cooler heads in the ascendance?
As per the lessons of 1914, how sure are we this crisis can be managed and will not spin out of control? On that count the lessons of history are hardly reassuring