Word: canadianization
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Canada in turn told the U.S. to mind its own business. The dispute threatened to bring down Conservative Prime Minister John Diefenbaker's shaky minority government and force an election. If so, Diefenbaker might be able to wage a campaign whose main issue would be U.S. intervention in Canadian affairs, and whether or not to accept U.S. nuclear weapons for Canadian defense...
...Canada defense plans and negotiations. Drafted "on a lower level," and handled in a manner that Britain's Manchester Guardian called "a foolish piece of hamfistedness." the release was approved by Secretary of State Dean Rusk and issued after only a 30-minute advance notice to the Canadian Department of External Affairs. Furious at both the content and style of the release, Prime Minister Diefenbaker was a model of outraged dignity before the House of Commons. It was, he cried, "an unprecedented action" and an "unwarranted intrusion in Canadian affairs." Canada remains a friend and ally...
...sudden resignation of Douglass Harkness, Canada's Minister of National Defense, may change completely the Canadian "political equation," according to Joseph S. Dupre, Secretary of the Graduate School of Public Administration...
...government has been unstable for a long time, pointed out John J. Conway, Master of Leverett House and an expert on Canadian affairs...
...Liberals suport a strong role in NATO and NORAD (North Atlantic Air Defense), including Canadian based Bomarc missiles armed with nuclear warheads. The recent U.S. pressure for the program, however, according to both Conway and Dupre, seems to have weakened the Liberal position, and strengthened Diefenbacker...