Max Bell School of Public Policy - News from Norman Hillmer

Norman Hillmer on Mackenzie King’s Cautious Transformation

�鶹��ý��վ — Wed, 29 Oct 2025 17:20:53 +0000

October 1, 2025 | Norman Hillmer (Slater Family Visiting Scholar) co-authored the chapter “King’s Cautious Transformation” with Stephen Azzi in The Enduring Riddle of Mackenzie King (UBC Press, 2025), edited by Patrice Dutil. The authors argue that King reshaped Canada’s national life and institutions through incremental and consensual change, a style of leadership they describe as “cautious transformation” in a country historically resistant to rapid reform.

Norman Hillmer on US-Canada Relationship | Rear Vision

�鶹��ý��վ — Wed, 07 May 2025 15:30:48 +0000

March 30, 2025 | Norman Hillmer, Slater Family Visiting Scholar, along with Robert Bothwell and Diane Francis spoke about the US-Canada relationship since the Trump Administration on Rear Vision podcast.

Norman Hillmer on Trump’s 51st-state threats | Toronto Life

�鶹��ý��վ — Wed, 07 May 2025 15:20:19 +0000

March 11, 2025 | Norman Hillmer, a Slater Family Visiting Scholar interviewed by Toronto Life, spoke on Trump’s 51st-state threats. "As a historian of the Canadian–American relationship, I have spent decades studying a dynamic that has been not perfect but largely dependable: two countries, deeply interconnected, running in parallel," said Norman. He further spoke about Trump's administration, defense spending, and "the 51st State."

Norman Hillmer on Canada becoming the 51st State of the US | LCSC

�鶹��ý��վ — Wed, 07 May 2025 15:01:40 +0000

March 10, 2025 | Norman Hillmer, a Slater Family Visiting Scholar spoke on “Canada as the 51^st State? A History and a Reckoning,” at the Laurier Centre for the Study of Canadian History, Wilfrid Laurier University. President Donald Trump wants Canada to be his 51st State. This isn’t the first time that an American leader thought this way.

Vincent Rigby on a new Strategic Canadian Foreign Policy | Policy Options

�鶹��ý��վ — Thu, 03 Apr 2025 19:01:50 +0000

April 3, 2025 | Professor Vincent Rigby and Norman Hillmer, wrote about the lack of strategic approach of Canada to world affairs and how it has been slow to react to rapidly changing threats.

New book on National Security

�鶹��ý��վ — Tue, 14 Jan 2025 20:27:19 +0000

December 21, 2024 | Norman Hillmer (Slater Visiting Scholar) and Vincent Rigby co-edited with Phil Legasse from NPSIA, book named Canada Among Nations 2023: Twenty-First Century National Security. The book includes articles by Jennifer Welsh on Choices for Canada in a New Geopolitical