HIS 1101 Lecture 9: 9.2 - The End of Liberal Power.docx
27 Mar 2015
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The election of 1957: the liberals by the ageing st laurent were confident of victory, the new conservative leader, john diefenbaker, brought a dynamic style to the election platform, he rallied canadians against liberal taxes and tight money policies, the conservatives won 112 seats while the liberals won 105 seats, st laurent resigned and was replaced by lester pearson. Trudeau and the world: trudeau became both a domestic and international symbol of the individual, he turned canada away from us and sough more contact with europe, africa and the pacific region, trudeau slashed the size of canada"s armed forces and reduced our nato commitment in europe, a major foreign policy review war carried out by the trudeau government in 1970 resulting in a plicy called the third option , this policy stress increasing canada"s connections with other countries other than.
