History 2201E Lecture Notes - Lecture 18: Avro Canada Cf-105 Arrow, Cim-10 Bomarc, James Gladstone
19 Jul 2012
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Lecture 18 part 1 john g. diefenbaker: elected in 1957, eager, but inexperienced in foreign affairs, best remembered for destroying the avro arrow project in 1958. Had no choice but to cancel it: cost was extremely high and threatened to undermine the government, can"t justify the cost. Sputnik had already been lost: portrayed as a western anti-american; really not (from ontario) Didn"t like the yankee influence on canada, but knew how much canada needed the us for defense: atomic armaments for canada. Showed his inexperience in dealing with these matters. Accepted the american bomarc missile to be installed in northern canada, mostly northern quebec. Americans assumed that installing the missiles would arm. Diefenbaker didn"t want nuclear arms in canada; wanted to. Bomarc missile access to them it they were needed. Ran afoul with us (especially president kennedy) as well as. No nuclear weapons could be launched from canada unless.
