Where the News Ends
CHAMBERLIN, WILLIAM HENRY
WHERE the NEWS ENDS By William Henry Chamberlin Canada Revisited: Massive Expansion Ottawa I spent several months in Canada in 1941 and shorter periods in 1943 and 1944 and even had...
...Canada does not yet have the psychology of a Pacific power...
...dumping of agricultural surplus products to the detriment of Canadian farmers...
...But the issue is not so important in Canadian eyes that Canada would be likely to cause resentment in Washington by any hasty move toward recognizing Peking...
...and Canadian policy in Europe...
...There has been U.S.-Canadian cooperation in setting up the third line, Pinetree, which covers the big cities...
...there is general realization that, in the event of Soviet air attack, the two countries are very much in the same boat...
...investment is especially heavy in oil...
...the largest opposition party, the Progressive Conservatives, finds it hard to raise a compelling issue in a period of prosperity, which has also dimmed the mass appeal of Canada's socialist or labor party, the CCF...
...American capital has been and is pouring into Canada and has now reached the impressive figure of about $11 billion...
...But by and large Canada makes the impression of a country with so much to do that there are scarcely enough hands to do it...
...Economically Canada, before the war balanced rather evenly between the U.S...
...Three ambitious projects which will tie the country more closely together economically are under way: the St...
...With the reservoir of good will on both sides, however, there is probably no U.S.-Canadian problem that cannot be solved by patient, sensible diplomatic discussion...
...origin, against less than twothirds before the war...
...To revisit Canada after eleven years is to get an impression of rapid and continuing economic growth...
...demand for Canadian raw materials...
...As a result, close and confidential relations have been established between the armed services of the two countries...
...investment and growing U.S...
...But I found no responsible Canadian who wished to discriminate against U.S...
...The Prime Minister, bilingual, fatherly Louis St...
...They know they could never have gone so fast so far, and with a complete absence of belt-tightening, if it had not been for U.S...
...The two metropolitan centers, Montreal and Toronto, are expanding at a phenomenal pace...
...technicians...
...investment or to check the continued flow of capital from south of the border...
...It is conceivable that, were it not for the strong American feeling on the subject, Canada would follow the example of Britain and the Asian members of the Commonwealth and establish diplomatic relations with Red China...
...Only in the "Down East" provinces, in Nova Scotia and New Brunswick, Prince Edward Island and recently acquired Newfoundland, are there some complaints of economic stagnation and Government neglect...
...The Liberals, who have been in power for 21 years, seem likely to come back in Parliament with a majority in the election that will probably take place next year...
...There have been some fireworks in and out of Parliament on this issue of U.S...
...British Columbia, the Pacific Coast province, is booming with timber and metal...
...Three radar lines have been stretched across Canada...
...Politically, militarily and economically, Canada has become more and more closely linked with the United States...
...This is not to say that Canada has no economic grievances against the United States...
...The Western provinces of Alberta and Saskatchewan have been revitalized by the big oil development that started in 1947...
...Lawrence Seaway, the trans-Canada natural gas pipeline, and a trans-Canada highway...
...WHERE the NEWS ENDS By William Henry Chamberlin Canada Revisited: Massive Expansion Ottawa I spent several months in Canada in 1941 and shorter periods in 1943 and 1944 and even had the temerity to write a book (long outdated) about our northern neighbor...
...A talk with Lester Pearson, Canada's Minister of External Affairs, conveyed the impression that there is no essential difference between U.S...
...and Britain, has become much more closely linked with the U.S...
...Canada is a member of NATO, has its contingent of troops in Germany, and regards the Soviet new look with a cautious hope heavily qualified by suspicion...
...Laurent, has a hold on the important French Canadian vote...
...One hears complaints about the tariff, about U.S...
...nor has it been touched emotionally, as the U.S...
...In the Far East, so far as one could judge, there is more of a cleavage...
...The northernmost DEW (Distant Early Warning) line has been installed and is being operated by U.S...
...pre-emption" of Canada's natural resources...
...Threefourths of Canada's imports are of U.S...
...base metals (notably iron ore), timber and paper products...
...Canada bears the cost and responsibility for the second Mid-Canada line...
...60 per cent of Canada's exports go to the U.S., as against less than 40 per cent before the war...
...There is no neutralism of any consequence in Canada...
...and a first-class row may be in the making over upstream and downstream rights in some of the big rivers of the West, such as the Columbia and the Kootenay, which rise in Canada and flow into the United States...
...has, by the fall of China to the Communists and by the Korean War...
...Canadians are an educated and economically sophisticated people...
Vol. 39 • October 1956 • No. 40