Canadian-American Relations

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  Trump has recently suggested such things as making Canada a state, of which Wayne Gretzky could be governor. I also recently made an old post about "Canadian American Relations" a 'featured' one since it seemed timely. While looking at it again, I noticed these headlines from over 60 years ago.

"U.S. Owns Too Much of Canada Says Professor," Leonard Lerner, Boston Globe, Nov. 17, 1963.
   "Prof. Richard W. Sterling of the government department at Dartmouth College, has told the McGill Conference on World Affairs in Montreal that the United States is "the arch interventionist power of all time" and that the United States owns "too _______ much of Canada." [I assume the blank space may indicate a word too crude for the times was used.]
   However, Prof. Sterling said that Canadians must take some of the blame for allowing the United States to control so much of their economy because it takes two to make a deal.
   Current examples of U.S. intervention in Canada, he said, were the auto parts row, the wheat deal with communist nations, the waterfront labor dispute and the nuclear warheads issue.
   "We are hopelessly arrogant," Prof. Sterling told the Canadians. "It should be U.S. policy to stop owning as much of Canada as it does. But on the other hand, you asked for it, and you got it."

In the spring of that year there was another diplomatic spat when the U.S. contended that the Gulf of St. Lawrence was part of the "high seas and open to anyone." The Canadian government did not agree. "Trouble is Brewing Over Who Owns the Gulf of St. Lawrence," Leonard Lerner, Boston Globe, Mar. 17, 1963.

Bonus: The Long Border

  The one separating us is the longest land border and it includes the bit of border in the far north between Alaska and Canada.

Source: During the 1950s and '60s The Boston Globe had a column dedicated to "Canadian American News." For more detail see, "Canadian American Relations."