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• Doing the Continental: A New Canadian-American Relationship
  Dundurn Press  /  BESTSELLER non-fiction books on politics
  
  

  	“Doing the Continental is a must read for those interested in Canadian-American relations.” — Michael Kergin, Canada’s ambassador to the United States, 2000-2005
  	"David Dyment explores the deeper dimensions of this relationship with intelligence and gusto." — Bob Rae, from his Foreword to Doing the Continental
  	“Doing the Continental is very good, wise on all fronts. The chapter on our lack of an energy policy is very convincing.” — Lawrence Martin, columnist and former Washington bureau chief with the Globe and Mail

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• Doing the Continental, nominated - one of the best Canadian political books of the last 25 years - in collaboration with the Writers' Trust of Canada.
  
  
• Doing the Continental was honoured by the Toronto Library Foundation at the 2011 Book Lover's Ball
  as one of under 60 celebrated recent Canadian books.
  
  
• Doing the Continental was on the Quill & Quire (Canada's magazine of book news) bestseller list for non-fiction politics, with books by seven Canadian and 13 international authors.
  
  
• Additional praise for Doing the Continental
  
  
• Doing the Continental events
  
  2013: Toronto, October 5th; Ottawa, June 26th and February 8th, 2013. 2012: Canton, USA, November 15th; Potsdam, USA, November 14th; Ottawa, October 13th and October 11th; Windsor, September 28th and September 27th; Ottawa, September 22nd and April 21st; Toronto, April 19th; Cambridge University, April 3rd; Georgetown University, March 26th; Vancouver, March 16th; Ottawa, February 3rd and January 14, 2012. 2011: Ottawa, November 18th; Peterborough, November 10th; Ottawa, November 9th and October 19th; Hamilton, October 12th; Ottawa, September 24th, June 26th, June 18th, June 11th and June 4th; Vancouver, May 21st and May 20th; Victoria, May 18th and 14th; Bellingham, USA, May 5th; Vancouver, May 3rd; Ottawa, April 23rd, April 20th, April 9th, March 26th, March 19th and March 5th; Calgary, February 28th; Regina, February 24th; Saskatoon, February 23rd; Winnipeg, February 22nd; Halifax, February 17th; Toronto, February 10th; Thunder Bay, February 8th; Vancouver, February 2nd and February 1st; Ottawa, January 27th; Montreal, January 18th; Ottawa, January 13th, 2011. 2010: Toronto, December 4th; North Bay, December 3rd and December 2nd; Wakefield, November 28th; Ottawa, November 23rd; Toronto, November 18th and November 3rd.
  
  
• Dyment responds in the June issue of the Literary Review of Canada to Conrad Black's review of Doing the Continental.
  
  Black's review led the May issue, with commissioned cover art.
  
  
• "Canada's NAFTA two-step" - Opinion piece: Globe and Mail
  
  
• "The U.S. relationship: It's not them, it's us" - Opinion piece:
  Ottawa Citizen, Vancouver Sun, Montreal Gazette, Regina Leader-Post, Calgary Herald
  
  
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About David Dyment

Dr. David Dyment is the author of Doing the Continental: A New Canadian-American Relationship, currently in its second printing, selected by the Toronto Library Foundation as a significant recent Canadian book, and a Quill & Quire bestseller.

David is currently a senior research associate in the Centre on North American Politics and Society at Carleton University. A past director of the Parliamentary Internship Programme, he has served as a senior policy adviser in the Department of Foreign Affairs and International Trade, and on the immediate staff of the governor general of Canada.

Opinion pieces by David have been in the Toronto Star, the Globe and Mail and other leading newspapers, he has been on CTV, CBC, BBC, and in French on Radio-Canada. An Ontario-Quebec Exchange Fellow, he received his doctorate from the Université de Montréal.

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