Madelaine Drohan
Journalist and author, former foreign correspondent for The Globe and Mail and reporter for The Economist; senior fellow at the Graduate School of Public and International Affairs (University of Ottawa) and author of He Did Not Conquer: Benjamin Franklin's Failure to Annex Canada (2025).
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Mar 12, 2026 • 40min
Madelaine Drohan on 250 Years of Canadians Fending Off Americans
Madelaine Drohan, journalist and author who covered global affairs for The Globe and Mail and The Economist, explores centuries of US designs on Canada. She traces 1775–76 invasions, Benjamin Franklin’s failed Montreal mission, and how the story was buried in national myth-making. The conversation also considers whether Canada needs a stronger founding narrative and how one might be built.
