Post WW2
Canada's strong economy through WW2 meant that it was one of the few countries that could help the war shattered nations in the world. Canada's action plan to deal with the other nations that needed help was to make change to the foreign policy. The new change included setting new directions in areas of foreign aid, peacekeeping, and immigration trade. Canada would not have a large influence on international affairs compared to the world powers, including the United States, Britain, France, the Soviet Union, and China. But Canada could not and would not be looked as a small and weak country. Canada had an abundance of natural resources, new military might, military size, and political stability. With Canada's having these newly acquired strengths, Canada was conveyed as a 'Middle power'. The prime minister of Canada, Mackenzie King did not want to waste this power and wanted to use it to Canada's advantage. The change of the foreign policy occurred because it was focusing on the better of the country in the future. Canada's change to the policy was meant to promote world peace, awareness of human rights, cooperation with the United States in continental defense through NATO and NORAD, increasing foreign aid to less developed nations through United Nation agencies and commonwealth and creating a closer relation with the US. This would allow Canada to become an even stronger country because of the support of other countries and will let Canada help create peace between nation in the future.