Bruce Muirhead is a professor in the Department of History at the University of Waterloo and the associate dean, Graduate Studies and Research. He is also a senior fellow at the Centre for International Governance Innovation (CIGI). He has written extensively on post-Second World War Canadian commercial, economic, and political history. He is the co-editor, along with Ron Harpelle, of Long-Term Solutions for a Short-Term World: Canada and Research Development (WLU Press, 2011).

Ronald N. Harpelle is a historian and filmmaker. He is the author of The West Indians of Costa Rica and has written extensively about the West Indian diaspora in Central America. Ron Harpelle is also the director of In Security, a documentary film about barbed wire and boundaries, and the co-director of Banana Split, a documentary about Canada’s favourite fruit. With Bruce Muirhead he appeared in [http://vimeo.com/16696833/ Citoyens du Monde/Citizens of the World], done for TFO.