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CANADIAN BROADCASTING CORPORATION, RADIO: MAIN CATALOGUE

1984-0164

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1947-03-08

Canadian Broadcasting Corporation

Lester Pearson speaks to a forum of American students at the United Nations. He speaks about the lingering idea of Canada as a still dependent British colony and other myths about Canada: "Please don't believe it if anyone tells you we are just a few frozen farmers and trappers huddled in igloos around the North Pole, emerging periodically to produce wheat, hockey players and quintuplets".~He also discusses: Canada's contribution to the war effort (troops and supplies); trade with the United States; Canada's position as a strong industrial state in the world; the worthy role Canada can play in the future of the Americas; the two main cultures and languages of Canada (French and English); the importance of the British Commnonwealth of Nations; Canada's support of the United Nations; and why Canada has not joined the Pan-American Union (the Pan-American was the forerunner of the Organization of American States).

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