When a US President sits down in the Oval Office for the first time, one of the farthest things from their mind is Canada.  On Capitol Hill the whirling pursuit of interests is intense.  And in Ottawa, Canada’s senior officials are often too preoccupied to appreciate that our neighbours to the south aren’t paying attention to the affairs and concerns of the Great White North. Canada’s relations with the United States are broad and deep, and the two countries are always in some senses renegotiating their interests from energy policy to defence, environmental strategy, and Arctic sovereignty, David Dyment provides an astute, pithy analysis of the past, present, and future continental dance between two countries that have much in common, yet often step on each others feet.