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A 9 page research paper that discusses political issues in Canada during the early cold war era. There is a prevalent Canadian national ideology that Canada is 'altruistic, nice, unmilitary and without territorial ambition' (Dawson, 2003, p. 629). In his review of a text by S.M. Maloney, Dawson (2003) relates that Maloney's thesis in this work is that this idea originates with the idea that Canada's approach to maintaining national security during the Cold War revolved peacekeeping and the nation's role in UN peacekeeping missions (Dawson, 2003). This attack on the image of Canada naturally brings up numerous questions about the reality of Canadian life during the Cold War era. How well did Canada live up to the ideology of its image? Bibliography lists 8 sources.
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his main argument that Canadas contribution to United Nations peacekeeping operation were not entirely altruistic. Rather than seeing Canadas Cold War military history as supporting the national mythological image, Maloney
asserts that Ottawas involvement in the UN and the role that Canada played internationally was part of the governments endorsement of the perceived necessity to bolter the North Atlantic Treaty
Organization (NATO) (Dawson, 2003). As this suggests, there are many scholars who differ with the perception that Canada has been consistently "altruistic" or "unmilitary" or without "territorial ambitions." Such
attack on the national Canadian image naturally brings up numerous questions about the reality of Canadian life during the Cold War era, such as: How well did Canada live up
to the ideology of its image? The range of dissent that was tolerated and the impact of dissent on civil rights: In September of 1945, a Russian immigrant, Igor
Gouzenko, entered the newsroom of the Ottawa Citizen and announced that he possess absolute proof that there was a "widespread Soviet spy ring operating in Canada" (CBC, 2001). Gouzenkos allegations
constituted a "wake up call for Canada," as well as the rest of the free world, as this event initiated a "chain reaction throughout the West (CBC, 2001). As a
neighbor of the US, "one of the two superpowers defining the post-war world," the Canadian government chose to move "closer to the American sphere of influence as international tensions escalated"
(CBC, 2001). Canadians took part in the Korean War as part of the UN task force. Domestically, the wave of Communist hysteria that swept over Canada mirrored the paranoia of
the US as anti-Communist "investigations left a trail of destroyed careers and ruined lives," just as it did in the US (CBC, 2001). In fact, Canada appears to have "joined
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