America, Canada’s problem

Unquestioning friendship to Canada survives in American public opinion and the 'deep state' of the American government, but at the topmost level of the U.S. administration it is no longer settled policy.

Then-Canadian prime minister Mackenzie King and then-U.S. president Franklin Roosevelt on July 31, 1936. During the Second World War, Canada forged a close relationship and understanding with the northeastern political class in the United States that effectively dominated American politics and government during the 20th century. Photograph courtesy of Library and Archives Canada

Opinion

BY ROBERT BOTHWELL

May 27, 2020

In 1940, a New York Times journalist, John MacCormac, published a book that he titled Canada: America’s Problem. The problem was clear: Canada was at war; the United States was not. There was, potentially, a fundamental divergence between the two North American nations, ...

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