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Providing and Consuming Security in Canada's Century

2000; University of Toronto Press; Volume: 81; Issue: 1 Linguagem: Inglês

10.3138/chr.81.1.1

1710-1093

Desmond Morton,

Military and Defense Studies

Whether or not the twentieth century belonged to Canada, the past century should have more benign memories than some earlier ones, when war brought invasion, conquest, and devastation. The nineteenth century left Canada with a border and a durable solution to its eternal vulnerability. If the twentieth century involved Canada in war, it was Canada’s own decision, since Canadians had become, for a time, providers, not consumers, of security. That situation changed in the second half of the century, but national habits are not quickly changed. Abstract: Que le vingtieme siecle ait ou non appartenu au Canada, le siecle dernier devrait representer des souvenirs moins douloureux que certains siecles precedents, quand la guerre resultait en invasions, conquetes et devastation. A la fin du dix-neuvieme siecle, le Canada se retrouva avec une frontiere et une solution durable a sa vulnerabilite. Si le vingtieme siecle a fait entrer le Canada dans la guerre, ce fut parce que le pays en avait decide ainsi, car les Canadiens etaient devenus, pour un certain temps, des fournisseurs et non des consommateurs de securite. La situation se modifia durant la deuxieme moitie du siecle, mais les habitudes d’une nation ne changent pas rapidement.