Day 65: Canada's Foreign Policy in the Cold War

Notes: Canada's foreign policy in the Cold War

• Loosening ties with the US
• Trudeau steering foreign policy away from the US.  Similar to sleeping next to an elephant - being "affected by every twitch and grunt"
• Relations with Communist China
• Dismantled/removed nuclear warheads in Canada and Europe.
• A Middle power
• North/South economic gap widens
• Trade and aid.  CIDA.  Trudeau pledges support to poor countries
• SALT 1.  ABMT
• Canada is a mediator between the super powers
• USSR invades Afghanistan
• Star Wars. Strategic defence initiative (SDI)
• Mulroney cancels FIRA for FTA.  NAFTA established in 1994.

CPH: On guard for thee: Suez Crisis, US Military presence, Pearson and the UN

Handout: Chapter 6 - Canada in the post war years. 

• Post war prosperity
• Post war politics

A look at cold war politics in pop culture from the 1980s.