Word: canadianization
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...mood of Canadian independence of the U.S. could also be seen in the results of a Gallup poll in which Canadians were asked whether they should become neutral in the Swiss tradition in the event of an atomic war between the West and East. While 58% lined up with the West. 42% were not so sure, and of these, 22% were actively for neutralism. Wrote Hugh MacLennan, one of Canada's top novelists, in the Toronto Star: "At the moment, the U.S. is considered a greater threat to world peace than Russia...
When he is in the mood for Yank-baiting, no one does it with more enthusiasm than Yank-admiring Lord Beaverbrook, 81, Canadian-born proprietor of the London Daily Express (circ. 4,250,000) and three other British papers. Beaverbrook's intermittent brand of anti-Americanism rests on the suspicion that the U.S. is out to reduce Britain to satellite status, has manifested itself in everything from his opposition to a 1946 U.S. loan to Britain ("We have sold the Empire for a trifling sum") to wild editorial outcries at the Ford Motor Co.'s recent...
...irreverently, Montreal Poet F. R. Scott epitomized a nagging Canadian obsession: how to preserve a distinctive Canadian cultural identity alongside the powerful influence of U.S. television, books and magazines. Last week, in deadly earnest, a three-man Royal Commission on Publications-Canada's equivalent of a U.S. congressional investigation-was sounding the same theme. But along with its concern for Canadian culture, the commission had an unconcealed economic spur: a demand by the Canadian magazine industry for government protection from U.S. competition...
...Toronto public-relations man, and Montrealer Claude Beaubien, vice president of the Aluminum Co. of Canada Ltd. The committee's assignment: to prepare, for parliamentary action, recommendations that, "while consistent with the maintenance of the freedom of the press, would contribute to the further development of a Canadian identity through a genuinely Canadian periodical press...
...Canadian magazines' story is that they are fast failing financially at the hands of U.S. publications that, entering Canada with an editorial product already paid for by their U.S. circulation, enjoy an unfair edge in the race for Canadian readers and revenues. The plaint is a familiar one. In 1957 a Liberal government zeroed in on Canadian editions of U.S. magazines (principally TIME and Reader's Digest), imposed a 20% tax on their Canadian advertising revenues. Diefenbakers Tories denounced the tax as discriminatory and as an interference with freedom of the press. Since the tax also failed...