In this issue of the Oxonian Review we are pleased to include the first in a series of ‘Country Profiles’. Through a series of articles on issues of contemporary relevance, each Country Profile will engage with various aspects of a country’s current political, social, and economic activities with a view to their importance on the international stage.

The subject of our first Country Profile is Canada. In the first article of the series, Thom Ringer tackles the nature and history of the progressive movement towards legalisation of gay marriage in Canada. With a reference to Canada’s own contentious language debate, David Williams discusses the work of a Canadian writer studying the global threat to linguistic diversity. In the third article, Phil Clark, in the third and final installment of the Oxonian Review’s series on Rwanda, reviews the troubling account of mass murder and international apathy by Roméo Dallaire, the Canadian Lieutenant-General who was in command of the United Nations Assistance Mission for Rwanda during the outbreak of the 1994 genocide. Finally, Tina Piper analyses the nature of Canada’s liberal and problematic approach to pharmaceutical patent law and the recent rise in Canadian over-the-internet distribution of cheap drugs to customers in the United States.

This Country Profile has been sponsored by the very generous assistance of the Government of Canada through the support of the Canadian High Commission in London. Many thanks to Matt Deutscher and Dr. William Lawton for their help in securing this funding.

 

Note: Contributors bear sole responsibility for the content of The Oxonian Review of Books, which in no way reflects the views of the University of Oxford or the Government of Canada.

With the assistance of the Government of Canada/avec l’aide du Gouvernement du Canada and The Foundation for Canadian Studies in the United Kingdom.