Canada's relations with the other governments and the peoples. Canada's most important relationship with the United States
but Canadian governments of both political parties have taken interest in other areas as well, mostly through multilateral
organizations such as the United Nations, the Commonwealth, the North Atlantic Treaty Organization.
The United States and Canada is the largest trading partner.
Canada is one of the world's leading peacekeepers, sending soldiers under U.N. authority around the world.
Canada is also committed to disarmament and is especially noted for its leadership in the Ottawa Convention to ban land mines.
Middle Powers Initiative, a program of the Global Security Institute highlights the importance of the middle powers diplomacy.
Through the Middle Powers Initiative, eight international non governmental organizations are able to work primarily with middle
power governments to encourage and educate the nuclear weapons states to take immediate practical steps that reduce nuclear dangers
and commence negotiations to eliminate the nuclear weapons.
International relations between the New Zealand and Canada have a common Head of State, currently Queen Elizabeth II.
Canada said that New Zealand is a valuable international partner despite the thousands of miles separating the two countries.
Both share a like minded view of the world on a variety of issues.
Canada France relations have been marked by the high levels of the military and economic cooperation, but also by periods of
diplomatic discord, primarily over the status of the Quebec.
British West Indies refers to the territories in and around the Caribbean at one time colonised by the United Kingdom.
These territories are also now known as the Anglophone Caribbean.
The territories including all the larger ones are now independent as separate countries with the membership to many
international forums such as the Organization of American States, Association of the Caribbean States, the World Trade Organization,
the United Nations, the Caribbean Community, the Commonwealth of Nations and the Caribbean Development Bank and others.
Brazil and Canada were both colonies of the European powers and had no direct contacts. Brazil's independence was much
earlier than Canada's, and British control of the Canada's relations with the foreign governments lasted well into the early twentieth century.
Foreign policy making the groups in each country tend to value multilateralism and human security. Canada is not necessarily
opposed to the Brazil's main goals of international recognition as a great power and regional integration in the South America.
The Indo-Canadian relations are the longstanding bilateral relations between the India and Canada, which are built upon a
mutual commitment to democracy, pluralism and people to people links, according to the government of the Canada.
Canada and Israel have shared a warm friendship. At the United Nations in 1947, Canada was one of the thirty three
countries that voted in favour of the creation of a Jewish homeland.
Canada delayed the granting de facto recognition to the Israel until December 1948 and gave the full de jure recognition
to the new nation on May 11, 1949, only after it was admitted into the United Nations.