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Vray C4d Osx Crack here. George Grant Ten years ago, the Literary Review of Canada named Lament for a Nation one of the 100 most important Canadian books. In 112 pages, Grant made the following argument: Canada had gone from being a colony of Britain through independence to sovereign nationhood and back to being a colony, this time a cultural colony of the United States. The loss of this cultural sovereignty, as he saw it, was at the core of his lament. He later said that he wrote the essay when he was in a boiling anger over what he perceived as the slow but very real Americanization of our politics. Progressive Conservative prime minister John Diefenbaker ((Canadian Press)) Meanwhile in the US, Camelot was flourishing.

Its young dazzling knight, John Kennedy, was the darling of Canadian media and the country's political elites. Kennedy loathed Diefenbaker, calling him 'that SOB.' For one thing, Diefenbaker had refused to go along with the American boycott of all things Cuban. Organizational Chart Templates Invision.

He thought JFK's handling of the Bay of Pigs fiasco was outrageous. Kennedy and his Pentagon wanted to install on Canadian soil, Bomarc missiles tipped with nuclear warheads. Diefenbaker was dead set against the proposal. The Opposition Liberals, lead by Lester Pearson, were in favour of having the missiles in Canada. NDP Leader Tommy Douglas, later Saint Tommy, sided with the Pearson Liberals to defeat the Tory minority in the Commons. In the 1963 election, the Liberals drove Diefenbaker from office. The defeat sent Grant into a fearsome rage, which culminated in his Lament for a Nation.