Canada’s Strategic Autonomy in the 21st Century

Justin Massie

Canada’s Strategic Autonomy in the 21st Century

13:15 — Welcoming & registration

Registration and coffee

13h45 — Opening remarks: Launch of the Strategic Analysis Network 3.0

Justin Massie, professeur, Professor, Department of Political Science, UQAM; Director, Strategic AnalysisNetwork

14:00 — Panel 1 — Canada’s Strategic Autonomy in the 21st Century: A Roadmap

Presentation of the Study

Philippe Lagassé, Professor, Norman Paterson School of International Affairs, Carleton University

Justin Massie, Professor, Department of Political Science, UQAM

Commens

Siobhan Harty, Visiting Scholar, Max Bell School of Public Policy, McGill University

LGen (ret.), Yvan Blondin, Former Commander of the Royal Canadian Air Force

Moderator : Mathieu Carbasse, Journalist, Le Devoir

15:15 — Break

15:30 — Panel 2 : Strategic Autonomy Elsewhere: What Models for Canada?

How have other states—large and small, allies and partners—defined and operationalized their strategic autonomy? What lessons, transposable or not, can Canada draw from them?

Chantal Lavallée, Associate Professor and Director of CRITIC, Royal Military College Saint-Jean

Frédéric Mérand, Professor, Department of Political Science, and Scientific Director of CÉRIUM, Université de Montréal

Jean-François Bélanger, Assistant Professor, Institute for Military Operations, Royal Danish Defence College

Nicolas-François Perron, Emerging Scholar, Strategic Analysis Network, UQAM

Moderator : To be announced

17:00 — Closing remarks

Date

Monday, September 14, 2026

Time

13:15 - 17:00

Organizer

Justin Massie

Justin Massie

Director

Université du Québec à Montréal (UQAM) The Department of National Defence and the Canadian Armed Forces / Le Ministère de la Défense nationale et les Forces armées canadiennes