1933 Glass-Steagall Act, 230, 233–234, 240, 245

1980–1983 recession, 416

2009 American Recovery and Reinvestment Act, 289, 513, 516

Buy American, 33, 39–43, 46–47, 50, 52, 141, 181, 199, 209, 277, 286, 288–289, 423

Acadians, 310

Act of Union (1840), 317

Afghanistan War, xvi–xvii, 2–3, 36, 53n1, 70, 78–79, 105–111, 113–114, 117–119, 120n2, 143, 154, 161, 164–165, 355–357, 362, 364, 382, 389–391, 393, 418–419, 430, 452–453, 462, 584

“Obama surge”, 164–165

American Civil War, 20, 69, 142, 184, 229, 313, 315–316, 318, 478, 491, 497–498, 542, 557–559

American values, 10, 473

American War of Independence, 69, 306, 309, 364, 480–482, 556

Quebec and the American Revolution, 475, 481–482, 310

Articles of Confederation, 555–556

asset-backed commercial paper, 225, 239, 251, 256–257

Australia , 114–115, 163, 258, 257, 376, 392–396

Australian Labour Party, 393

Australia, New Zealand and US security treaty, 393

Autarkic mentality, 198–199, 210, 215, 544

Auto Pact, 127–128, 143, 162

Axworthy, Lloyd, 354, 381–383

Ballistic Missile Defense (BMD), 139, 164, 380, 382–383, 386, 388–389, 391–392, 418, 423, 456

bank-holding companies, 224, 227–228, 238, 245, 252, 255–256

Bank of Canada, 235, 242–243, 248, 251, 263n20

Basel Committee, 240, 249–250, 264n26

Bloc Québécois, 360, 444, 449–450, 453, 458, 464n9

Borden, Robert, 21–23, 139, 325

Bourassa, Robert, 445

British North America, 482, 542

Lower Canada in British North America, 306–307, 309–310, 313, 317, 477, 481

Statute of Westminster (1931), 306–307, 326

British North America Act (1867), 482, 542

Burney, Burney, 134, 136

Bush, George H.W., 102–103, 379–380, 416, 474