Foreign policy reviews reconsidered.

In this article, the author discusses the usefulness of the foreign policy review as a mechanism for re-calibrating Canadian foreign policy. The author focuses on a major review, arising from the defeat of the Progressive Conservative government in 1993 and the advent to power of a Liberal majority government that year. He observes that a Canadian government reluctance to do less of anything internationally leads to bland assurances like the promise to do more with less. In addition, the author describes the role of the prime minister and minister in the implementation of foreign policy.