1. The immediate future : a bleak scenario -- 2. The harmful idealization of peacekeeping -- 3. What really matters : Canada's national interests -- 4. Getting on with Washington and the Pentagon -- 5. True north : strong, free, ours? -- 6. A pacifist Quebec -- 7. Multiculturalism and Canadian foreign policy -- 8. The foreign and defence policies Canada needs - and a more hopeful scenario.