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President Ford got Canada into G7
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| Contributor | Monsieur |
| Last Edited | Monsieur Dec 27, 2006 02:05pm |
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| Media | Website - CBC |
| News Date | Wednesday, December 27, 2006 08:05:00 PM UTC0:0 |
| Description | Gerald Ford, who died this week at age 93, never visited Canada during the short time he was U.S. president, but he did Canada a major favour on the international scene.
In 1975, the West was facing an economic crisis caused by inflation and rising oil prices. French President Valéry Giscard d'Estaing started a meeting for leaders to discuss the problem informally.
He invited the heads of a group called the G5 for talks, then added non-member Italy. But he was adamant that Canada be excluded, according to an an article by Thomas Axworthy in the Canadian Encyclopedia.
Then Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau fought back, and had some support from the leaders in Britain and Germany.
"But Canada's key friend was President Gerald Ford of the United States," Axworthy's article said. Ford was "irate" about Canada's exclusion, and even considered refusing to attend.
However, the president had a better plan. Just as France had invited Italy in 1975, he invited Canada to the 1976 summit in Puerto Rico. |
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