‘Americans don’t know enough about Canada’: prominent Washington voice for Canada-U.S. relationship shutters

There are hopes of reconstituting the efforts of the Canada Institute in a new organization, but it won't be attached to the Wilson Center.

Foreign Affairs Minister Mélanie Joly during then-U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken's visit to Ottawa in 2022. For many cabinet ministers, their first stop during a trip to Washington, D.C., was to the Wilson Center's Canada Institute to give an address.The Hill Times photograph by Andrew Meade

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BY NEIL MOSS

April 30, 2025

Amid escalating trade and sovereignty threats from United States President Donald Trump, an influential think tank in Washington, D.C., dedicated to raising American awareness of Canada’s relationship with its southern neighbour has been shuttered.

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