POL312Y1 Lecture Notes - Peacekeeping, Human Security
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Shared continent means us defense policy has a lot of influence on us. We developed nuclear power and weapons after the developing power, which changed from the idea that we are surrounded by ocean. Canadian military was pretty impressive by the end of ww2 considering its population size. We took advantage of the fact that us has a very strong military. Canada in making military decisions: we do just as much as we need to defend ourselves. If we canada didn"t do certain things that don"t satisfy us, us wont like us: we are dependent on economic activity with us, so we know we need to do things to satisfy them. We are not really worried about ourselves but us may be concerned about their security. Canada"s inside: british empire, cold war west and nato. Canada has a lot of troops in germany which seems to be part of our inside.
