This past year has been very challenging for us all. Confronted with the biggest threat to the global economy in 70 years, many countries took extraordinary measures to protect both their economies and citizens from economic collapse. The "green shoots" of stabilization and recovery that we are now seeing are the result of the collective policy response that individual countries have implemented in a spirit of cooperation. As we emerge from a crisis atmosphere, we cannot reduce our efforts to deal with the many, shared global challenges:
When British Prime Minister Sir Winston Churchill said, "The Battle of France is over, the Battle of Britain is about to begin" he understood the gravity of the strategic situation that existed in the summer of 1940.
The Honourable Peter MacKay, Minister of National Defence and Minister for the Atlantic Gateway, issued the following statement today on the death of a Canadian soldier in Afghanistan:
