Word: canadianization
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...quash the rebellion by voting Camp out of office at this year's party conference. The Diefenbaker candidate for Camp's job was Toronto Lawyer Arthur Maloney, 46. But Diefenbaker's fiery oratory, which once had propelled the party to the greatest election margin in Canadian history, this time failed to rally the delegates to his cause. As the Toronto Globe and Mail put it, "The audience didn't just sit on their hands; they checked them at the door...
Irrational Behavior. Santa Ana-like phenomena are not confined to Southern California. Similar hot, dry wind sweeping down mountain slopes is called "foehn" (pronounced, approximately, fain) in Austria and Germany, "chinook" along the U.S. and Canadian Rockies, "sky sweeper" on Majorca, "khamsin" in Israel, and "the Canterbury northwester" in New Zealand...
Those White House Calls. Brisk demand has given fresh urgency to some projects for new oil sources. Next fall in Alberta, a $240 million plant built by a Sun Oil Co. Canadian subsidiary will begin extracting 45,000 bbl. of oil a day from the Athabasca tar sands, which contain 369 billion bbl. of recoverable oil. Interest is also reviving in Colorado's vast deposits of oil shale. Recently, some producers in Kansas, Oklahoma and Texas raised basic crude-qil prices 80 to $3,08 per bbl.-closer to the point at which extraction of oil from shale could...
...Canadian government, however, refuses to take steps to end Canada's dependence on the U.S. At its annual conference earlier this month, the Liberal Party (presently in power) rejected former finance minister Walter L. Gordon's program to reduce the proportion of foreign ownership over the next 25 years to less than one-third, fearing it would destroy Canada's current economic boom...
...until Canada takes meaningful action along these lines, the situation will continue to deteriorate. More of Canada's resources will fall, by default, into the hands of American business, the percentage of American control over the Canadian economy will increase, and there will be greater popular hostility toward the United States. This trend will not be reversed until Canada buys back its economic freedom...