Canada Switches Targets
When Premier Pierre Trudeau visited Russia in May, he informed Premier Kosygin publicly that Canada faced two threats to its existence as an independent nation: one was Quebec separatism, but the principal threat was the American presence in Canada. Now that the government has released its White Paper on defense policy, it is apparent that Trudeau’s assessment is the cornerstone of defense planning. The emphasis is to be on protecting Canada from the U.S. with only token resources left for the North American Air Defense Command (NORAD) and NATO.
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