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The paper looks at how the creation of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization in 1949 and the reform of the NATO Alliance after the collapse of the Soviet Bloc in 1989 influenced Canada's foreign and defence policies in a number of important ways. The paper explains that the most important influence on Canada of NATO's creation was that it compelled Ottawa to recognize that collective defence and foreign policy coordination with other Western democracies was necessary in order to contain communism, especially in Europe. The paper discusses how after the collapse of the Soviet Bloc, NATO reforms influenced Canada to assume responsibility for peacekeeping and related operations along with other NATO member states.

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"The creation of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization in 1949 and the reform of the NATO Alliance after the collapse of the Soviet Bloc in 1989 influenced Canada's foreign and defence policies in a number of important ways. The most important influence on Canada of NATO's creation was that it compelled Ottawa to recognize that collective defence and foreign policy coordination with other Western democracies was necessary in order..."

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