themselves if British and Canadian troops fell in Europe. Mackenzie King looked to the most likely possible ally who would be interested in securing the North American continent, the United States. 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. King would be successful for his quest for a military alliance when, in August 1940, King and the President of the United States, Franklin D. Roosevelt, would sign the Ogdensburg Agreement. Mackenzie King had completed what was necessary in order to protect Canada in a time of military uncertainty. King also seems to have sold the idea to Winston Churchill. However, King was also able to ensure that the Joint Board of Defence would operate on Canadian as well as American terms. The agreement was never debated in the U.S. Senate or in Parliament (Thompson and Randall 153). Canada was now as many described at the time a "lynchpin" between Britain and the United States, although the Canadian Prime Minister was not about to give into American pressure. That is why during the Ogdensburg negotiations he rejected the idea of American bases on Canadian soil. Ogdensburg Agreement led to North American defense plan
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