In 1867 Canada was heading down the road of autonomy, in 1931 Canada gained further independence from the empire by negotiating and signing the Treaty of Westminster. But within a period of a few short years of moving away from one empire we just backed into another one. As many of us know today Canada is known to many as an American satellite state. How did this happen, how did a country looking to gain greater autonomy end up having the greatest amount of foreign ownership then any other industrial country in the world. I will examine the early history of the relationship between Canada and America and examine some of the key events that bound Canada to the United States. I will mainly cover the years 1930 to the cold war era and examine what impact the close relationship has had on Canada and how the different authors feel this has affected Canadians today.
When the 1930’s came around the Canadian economy took a downward spiral. It was not unusual in a capitalist economy to experience short, sharp fluctuation in the economy but this time it was different (Norrie and Owram 353). By this time Canada was already dependent on the U.S, as a large part of its exports depended on the United States. Canada’s share of the new economi
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We are the servants of a new mercantilism. Through foreign investment the Americans accumulated Canada at the unbelievable rate of a billion dollars from 1955 onward; the view on foreign investment was mixed to say the least. And the government is still allowing more and more foreign investment. We are just a colony of the United States and we are acting for the betterment of the Mother country. c era was created by a resource boom that was inspired by demand in the United States, now with no demand the economic situation wasn’t looking good for Canada (Thompson and Randall 109). Just think of the hundreds and thousands of America companies we know of in Canada. Mackenzie King would look to the United States for a military agreement that would allow Canada to support the British cause, and at the same time protect Canadian soil from invasion. The foreign subsidiary in Canada clearly exists to further the interests of the parent corporation, whose home country in most cases is the United States. Pierre Trudeau once described the Canadian-American relationship as being like “sleeping with the elephant (Thompson and Randall 248). Greater distances between markets mean larger costs of transporting goods and services between them, hurting trade and the development of close economic ties.
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