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→Canada did not have the power to shape its own foreign policy,
...and yet the rest of the pgph goes on to show how Canada did precisely that--friendliness towards moscow, etc. not to mention not getting suckered into Vietnem. How about the centrality of UN peacekeeping to Canada's foreign policy during the 1970s and 80s? And why take out the bits about nuclear weapons and reduced NATO commitment? [[User:MichaelHWC|MichaelHWC]] 00:07, 9 November 2009 (EST)
...and yet the rest of the pgph goes on to show how Canada did precisely that--friendliness towards moscow, etc. not to mention not getting suckered into Vietnem. How about the centrality of UN peacekeeping to Canada's foreign policy during the 1970s and 80s? And why take out the bits about nuclear weapons and reduced NATO commitment? [[User:MichaelHWC|MichaelHWC]] 00:07, 9 November 2009 (EST)
::Good point. Canada's defense is 99% under US control so it lacks independence in foreign policy. Therefore Trudeau tried symbolic things like statements that annoyed Americans. I expanded the military section. [[User:RJJensen|RJJensen]] 12:49, 9 November 2009 (EST)
::Good point. Canada's defense is 99% under US control so it lacks independence in foreign policy. Therefore Trudeau tried symbolic things like statements that annoyed Americans. I expanded the military section. [[User:RJJensen|RJJensen]] 12:49, 9 November 2009 (EST)
:::where did you get the 99% figure from? It would seem to me that if the Americans controlled that much of the Canadian military, the Canadians would have fought in Vietnam and Iraq, allowed for the deployment of a nuclear arsenal on Canadian soil, etc. etc. [[User:MichaelHWC|MichaelHWC]] 13:44, 9 November 2009 (EST)