: The research question for this article is straightforward: when an issue of particular importance for the United States arises in an international forum, does Canada vote with or against the American position? Canada is strongly dependant of the United States at the military and economic level. Does that situation leave no choice to Canada but to vote with the us government in multilateral organizations? The selected cases are the Cuban embargo, the Israeli Palestinian conflict, the anti-personnel mines, the death penalty, the International Criminal Court, the Convention on cultural diversity, and the Kyoto Protocol. The conclusion of this research is that Canada votes much more often with its European allies members of the G8 than with the American government.