HIST 203 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Social Change, Backtracking, The Fruit Machine
14 Apr 2016
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After wwii, can has higher world standing. Way to avoid getting americanized w/out protection of gb. Key poli element of post war internationalism. International monetary fund and the world bank. Discovery that there were soviet spy rings in countries like canada. Diplomatic earthquake--16 charged in can, 10 convicted. Basically serves as a un w/out the ussr. Participating was way to advance poli career. Rcmp worked w fbi/along to preemptively attack perceived threats. The attack on lesbians and gay men. Rcmp-developed (w/ canadian unis) device intended to measure biological responses to homoerotic pornography. Rcmp amassed 9,000 files on suspected canadians, 3,000 federal employees. Investigative technique to root out ppl from public service. Topic has only very recently been brought to public attn. Those seeking higher positions had full background check done. Background checks looking for various weaknesses, including poli/moral flaws. But majority of issues were moral (only 27/213 were poli) Being lgbt was considered a moral flaw.
