[lg policy] CBC news analysis on the "Anglosphere"

[Emily McEwan-Fujita]

News analysis from Brian Stewart of CBC News, 28-Sep-2012:

The growing cabal of English-speaking nations
Canada-Britain embassy sharing deal is step towards 'Anglosphere'

The week's flap over proposed new Canada-Britain embassy sharing seemed to
read both far too much into the agreement, and too little.

It is most unlikely this arrangement will eclipse our own foreign policy in
any way, as the opposition warns. But nor is it quite the small
housekeeping matter — akin to sharing printers and a supplies cupboard —
that the Conservatives seek to portray it as.

What it may well portend, though, is yet another incremental step by this
particular Canadian government (and Britain) towards what academics call
"the Anglosphere," a concept that has fascinated its advocates across the
English-speaking world for the past 20 years or so.

[The article continues here:
http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/story/2012/09/27/f-vp-stewart-anglo-nations.html
]
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Emily McEwan-Fujita, Ph.D.
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