In bed with an elephant : prime ministers & presidents / the National Film Board of Canada presents ; produced and directed by Kent Martin ; written by Kent Martin, James Laxer.

[Montréal, Quebećbec] : [Distributed by] National Film Board of Canada, [2015]

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This hour-long documentary provides a retrospective of United States-Canada relationships as personified by successive presidents and prime ministers. It becomes quite clear that Canadian prime ministers, from John A. Macdonald down, have started their tenures on a sort of first-things-first basis by making overtures to their American counterparts. Attitudes and outcomes have varied widely, and this is what intrigues when seen in close-up. The almost comic antipathy between Kennedy and Diefenbaker, for instance, is as palpable here as is the folksy camaraderie of Reagan and Mulroney. Part four of the series Reckoning: The Political Economy of Canada.

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October 30, 2018

Reckoning: the political economy of Canada ; [4]

Editor, Ian Rankin ; photography, Mike Mahoney ; music, Eric Lemoyne, Roger Lemoyne.

Host, James Laxer.

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