Canada in The Cold War

Canada In The Cold War

Canada played the role of a middle power, and occasionally, an important role in the Cold War. Throughout the US/Soviet rivalry, Canada was normally on the side of the United States. However its opposition to the Vietnam War and Canada's relationship with China and Cuba, along with the Prime Ministership of Pierre Trudeau often had Canada at odds with its southern neighbors.

Read more about Canada In The Cold War:  Early Cold War, Fears of Communist Subversion, Peacekeeping, Canada-U.S. Tensions, End of The Cold War

Famous quotes containing the words canada, cold and/or war:

    I see Canada as a country torn between a very northern, rather extraordinary, mystical spirit which it fears and its desire to present itself to the world as a Scotch banker.
    Robertson Davies (b. 1913)

    To watch that world come up like a cold sun,
    Rewarding others, is my liberty.
    Not to prevent it is my will’s fulfilment.
    Willing it, my ailment.
    Philip Larkin (1922–1986)

    Soldier, there is a war between the mind
    And sky, between thought and day and night. It is
    For that the poet is always in the sun,
    Patches the moon together in his room
    To his Virgilian cadences, up down,
    Up down. It is a war that never ends.
    Wallace Stevens (1879–1955)