"Living next to you," Pierre Trudeau once told an American audience, "is like sleeping with an elephant; no matter how friendly and even-tempered is the beast, one is affected by every twitch and grunt." This course evaluates: the cultural, political, economic and ideological twitches and grunts in the Canada-US relationship; what it means to sleep with an elephant; being Canadian in the presence of so large a continental "partner;" and the emerging role of Mexico.