によって Rose S Bahaie 8年前.
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Canada's PM of the time didn't want Canada in major conflict. He sated that the issues was US's problem and it effect the US's policy and interests not the Canadians.
Because of the PM's decision to keep Canada out of the Cuban crisis the Canadian government took down Canada's NORAD forces that were on alert and did U.S. planes with atomic weapons had no permission to land on Canadian bases.
Canada's PM Diefenbaker believed he was protecting Canadian interests and independence by not helping the US with its owns nation's problems.
The damage to Canada-U.S relations was at its worst when Canada refused help to the US. If Canada had continued to refuse help to the US trade between the two nations could have been at great risk as well.
Eventually Canada put Canadian troops on alert, relieving some Canadians and Americans from further nation-to-nation tensions.
Many believed that even though the Cuba Crisis was an American issues, Canada should not have hesitated to help its closets nation, best partner in trade, and its ally in war.
The Canadian minister of external affairs felt that Canadians should be non-nuclear. He said it was wrong to help the UN stop the building of nuclear weapons while we have them in our nation.
Others feared that if the Soviet Union knew Canada had nuclear weapons their aggression would grow, therefore causing nuclear war.
Overall everyone who was opposed felt that accepting nuclear weapons would only cause the threat of war to increase, and put Canada in unwanted and unnecessary danger.
Businesses and newspapers supported the Liberals, because if Canada became an 'anti-Americanism' nation, it would have injured the trade from the United States.
Some felt Canada could not and should not entirely depend on the US for protection from nuclear war.
During Prime Minister Diefenbake's speech, of cancelling the Avro Arrow, he stated that defensive weapons would only be self if carrying nuclear weapons.
The costs to continue to build the Avro Arrows were unbelievably high, and the money would have to come from Canadian citizen's tax money.
No orders from foreign countries came and many said the Avro Arrow was a disorganized and overall bad company.
No one, including the Canadian Air Force wanted to buy it. It would have also costed 6 times more then its american equivalent.
It could have been the finest jet interspter in the world, and if it had remained it would a great part of Canadian history. The jet was built in Canada by Canadians. Making it truly Canadian.
Canada was apart of the top three of the largest producers of aeronautical parts in the world, however cancelling the Avro Arrow devastated the Canadian aerospace industry.
If the Avro Arrow project continued Canada could have had a 'man on the moon' beacue of the Avro Arrow Rover project.
