Canada Needs a New Generation of Americanists for the United States That Exists, Not the One It Remembers
Waiting out Trump assumes the old America returns after 2028. Canada should invest in people who understand why it won’t.
Research Fellow at the Institute of Peace & Diplomacy
Andrew Erskine is a Research Fellow at the Institute of Peace & Diplomacy, a Fellow at the Canadian Maritime Security Network, and a Nonresident Vasey Fellow at the Pacific Forum. He graduated from the University of Prince Edward Island with a Bachelor of Arts with Honours in History and a Masters of Global Affairs. Andrew was a 2025 Emerging Leader with Arctic Frontiers and a 2025 Young Leader with the Pacific Forum. Currently, Andrew works with the Government of Prince Edward Island, having previously held positions with Veterans Affairs Canada and as a Parliamentary and Legislative Assistant to the Member of Parliament for Orléans. Andrew has published articles with the Institute of Peace & Diplomacy, the Conference of Defence Association Institute, Journal of Indo-Pacific Affairs, the Macdonald-Laurier Institute, the Canadian Global Affairs Institute, The Hill Times, Breaking Defense and the Defense Post. His work focuses on Canadian security, defense, and foreign policy in the Indo-Pacific, North America, the Arctic and NATO.
Waiting out Trump assumes the old America returns after 2028. Canada should invest in people who understand why it won’t.
Year after year, Arctic Ocean ice continues to melt faster, freeze slower and continuously recede – opening new opportunities on the one hand but creating just as many more on the other