3.3. The End of the Cold War

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3.3. The End of the Cold War

• Brian Mulroney and Constructive Internationalism

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3.3. The End of the Cold War

• Brian Mulroney and Constructive
  Internationalism
• Free Trade

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3.3. The End of the Cold War

• The Argument for Free Trade

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3.3. The End of the Cold War

• The Argument against Free Trade

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The Canada-US Free Trade Agreement

• The 1988 free trade election
• CUSFTA signed January 2, 1988 and entered into
  force January 1, 1989

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3.3. The End of the Cold War

• Brian Mulroney and Constructive
  Internationalism
• Free Trade
• Security and Defence

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3.3. The End of the Cold War

• Brian Mulroney and Constructive
  Internationalism
• Free Trade
• Security and Defence
• Development Policy Reform

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3.3. The End of the Cold War

• Brian Mulroney and Constructive
  Internationalism
• Free Trade
• Security and Defence
• Development Policy Reform
• The Environment

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3.3. The End of the Cold War

• The Environment a foreign policy issue

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3.3. The End of the Cold War

• Brian Mulroney and Constructive
  Internationalism
• Free Trade
• Security and Defence
• Development Policy Reform
• The Environment
• Opposing the U.S.

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The End of the Cold War

• Fall of the Berlin Wall (9 Nov. 1989)
• Collapse of Communist Regimes in CEE
• German Unification (3 Oct. 1990)
• Warsaw Pact Dissolves (1 Jul. 1991)
• USSR Disintegrates (31 Dec. 1991)

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3.3. The End of the Cold War

• The End of the Cold War
• The Impact on Canadian Foreign and Defence
  Policy Continuity and Change

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3.3. The End of the Cold War

• The Canadian Government Response in the 1990s
• Close relationship with US (NAFTA, NORAD Renewal)
• Multilateralism
• Stayed in NATO withdrew stationed forces,
  supported enlargement, supported NATO peace
  operations in Balkans
• Increased involvement in UN/non-UN peacekeeping
• Maintained interest in International Peace and
  Security
• Attempted to increase exports (Team Canada, WTO)
• No direct military threat to Canada, but military
  still called upon to go overseas