This is the first book to situate the Canadian mineral trade and Canada's changing status as a resource exporter and importer within the context of the ongoing debate over strategic minerals. As such, it is significant to our understanding of Canadian mineral policy-making in its international as well as its domestic setting and to such broader issues as the contemporary relationship between mineral resources, foreign policy initiatives, and international distribution patterns of power and influence.

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David G. Haglund is Director of the Centre for International Relations and an associate professor in the Department of Political Studies at Queen's University.

Provides a well-researched overview of the effects of Government policy on the minerals industry in Canada. . . . fascinating reading, as history and as analysis, and is recommended to anyone concerned about the future of the mining industry in Canada. It is of particular relevance to those contemplating investing in Canada's minerals industry, as well as to those in other countries, in government or industry, who are or may be using the mineral products with which Canada is so well endowed. - K. A. Grace, Minerals Industry International One of the conclusions drawn from this book is that security will be of increasing importance in US trade policy, and this might benefit Canada, In addition, a geopolitical framework for any discussion of Canadian export mineral trade is developed. All political economists with a strategic bent will find this book interesting. - Geoffrey Sloan, The Journal of Strategic Studies This is a timely and instructive volume which emphasises Canada's ambiguous role within the international minerals trade. . . Clearly, the editor and contributors are to be congratulated for constructing competent, informed and consistent sets of arguments. - Colin Williams, British Journal of Canadian Studies