1. Canada in a North American Perspective
... for, "member countries commit themselves to maintaining and developing their defence capabilities, individually and collectively, providing the basis for collective defence planning" (www.nato.int). This organization was created to help keep the peace between these nations, and also to insure that other nations would not consider upon acting in any un-peaceful fashions. It was Pearson who signed on behalf ... of Canada and it was Pearson who the first delegate that Canada sent off to represent herself at many NATO conferences. Pearson himself sat as the chairman of NATO from 1951-1952. ...
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