The evolution of Canadian attitudes toward the economic and defense cooperation with the US in the 1950s
The paper deals with the evolution of Canadian attitudes toward close cooperation with the US in the sphere of the economy and defense. This cooperation was welcomed throughout the WWII and during the first years after the war, but in the 1950s it was increasingly becoming subjected to criticism as it was thought to infringe national sovereignty of Canada. Analyzing Canadian attitudes to the growth of direct American investment in the Canadian economy, the establishment of NORAD, the Avro Arrow project closure, etc., the author concludes that by the end of the decade Canadians have come to understand the scale of their dependence on the U.S.- the knowledge which combined with the growing sense of national identity will lead to search the ways of reducing this dependence in the following decades.