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Domestic Factors and Canada-United States Fisheries Relations*

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  10 November 2009

Stephen Greene
Affiliation:
Dalhousie University
Thomas Keating
Affiliation:
St. Francis Xavier University

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Copyright © Canadian Political Science Association (l'Association canadienne de science politique) and/et la Société québécoise de science politique 1980

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10 The Swiftsure Bank issue received almost as much parliamentary attention as earlier agreements. The 1978 agreement and the negotiations leading up to its signing were subject to more parliamentary debate than bilateral fisheries relations had received in the previous seven years combined.

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