Does Canada need a new Asia policy?

What does Asia's rise mean for Canada? This introductory essay explores some of the economic, political, and military dimensions of Canada's relationship with China and India in particular, and how Canadian foreign policy might be developed to deal with a new reality where the world's economic and political centre of gravity is in the Pacific Ocean, rather than the north Atlantic. It also argues that using an informal "grand strategy" heuristic is a potentially useful way of assessing how to develop foreign policy in a complex and dynamic environment.