This is a practical course that provides participants with a greater understanding and increased skills to design an effective trade and development strategy for Canada. Course participants will learn how to analyze trade and development issues, how to construct a practical trade strategy for Canada, and understand how and why trade strategies in developed countries like Canada are different from those pursued by developing countries. The capstone session will integrate these objectives through a roundtable discussion with former senior trade negotiators and diplomats about how Canada can advance its trade and development priorities according to the government’s Global Markets Action Plan.