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Lloyd Axelworthy

My Life in Politics

Axworthy served as MLA in the Manitoba legislature for six years followed by twenty-one years in the House of Commons, more than half of those in the cabinets of Pierre Trudeau, John Turner, and Jean Chretien. With extraordinary candour and introspection, he invites readers inside his roles in some of the most important political stories of the last half century, including the enactment of Canada’s Charter of Rights and Freedoms, the great debate over the Canada-US free trade agreement, and the global fights to ban landmines and establish the International Criminal Court.

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Lloyd Axelworthy

Lloyd Axworthy is a Canadian politician, elder statesman and academic. He served as Minister of Foreign Affairs in the Cabinet chaired by Prime Minister Jean Chrétien. In 2000, he retired from politics, returning to western Canada where he served as President of the University of Winnipeg for ten years. In December, 2015 he was promoted to Companion of the Order of Canada. He now chairs the World Refugee and Migration Council and lives with his wife Denise, in Ottawa.

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In this prologue, Axworthy examines the moral deliberations behind Canada’s 1999 NATO intervention in Kosovo.
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In this chapter, Axworthy traces his childhood during the Second World War in Saskatchewan and Manitoba. Born in 1939, he grew up in Winnipeg while his father served in Sicily and the Netherlands.
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In this chapter, Axworthy discusses his experiences at Princeton, set against the civil rights movement, Vietnam protests, and the assassinations of President Kennedy and Martin Luther King Jr.
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In this chapter, Axworthy traces his years in the United States during the Kennedy era and the civil rights movement of the early 1960s. It examines the Cuban Missile Crisis of 1962, the Nuclear …
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In this chapter, Axworthy discusses his formative years in federal politics between 1967 and 1969, from his role as policy assistant to John Napier Turner through the 1968 Liberal leadership …
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In this chapter, Axworthy discusses two episodes in early-1970s Winnipeg: the People’s Committee for a Better Neighbourhood’s successful 1971 relocation of a low-cost apartment block, …
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In this chapter, Axworthy traces the 1979 campaign in which he won the new riding of Winnipeg Fort Garry during a period of Liberal unpopularity under Pierre Elliott Trudeau.
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In this chapter, Axworthy intertwines his political ascent in the early 1980s with the formation of his relationship with Denise Ommanney.
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In this chapter, Axworthy recounts his role in crafting the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms,enacted in 1982.
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In this chapter, Axworthy examines the craft of governance through the lens of refugee settlement, employment equality, and regional reform in Canada.
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In this chapter, Axworthy discuses his opposition years between 1984 and 1991, following the Mulroney government’s rise to power.
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In this chapter, Axworthy discusses the 1988 Canadian election, a proposed free-trade agreement with the United States, and the 1990 Liberal leadership race that brought Jean Chrétien to power.
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In this chapter, Axworthy traces the arc from the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989 to Canada’s domestic political upheaval of the early 1990s. He examines the 1993 election, the Liberal …
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In this chapter, Axworthy discusses Canada’s role in launching the Ottawa Process in 1996 and the 1997 signing of a treaty banning anti-personnel landmines.
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In this chapter, Axworthy discusses Canada’s human security foreign policy from 1997 to 2000.
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In this chapter, Axworthy discusses his diplomatic encounters as Canada’s Foreign Minister in the late 1990s, spanning Princess Diana’s 1997 funeral, a dinner with Castro, and the …
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In this chapter, Axworthy discusses his final years as Canada’s foreign minister from 1999 through the mid-2000s, focusing on the development of the Responsibility to Protect norm endorsed …
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In this chapter, Axworthy reflects on Canada’s unfinished reckoning with Indigenous peoples, its waning influence on the world stage, and the erosion of participatory democracy at home.
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In this chapter, Axworthy proposes a constitutional "Third Pillar" recognizing First Nations, Inuit, and Métis as founding peoples of Canada.
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In this epilogue, Axworthy uses the North Star as a metaphor for purpose and direction.
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