Ogdensburg Agreement
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The Ogdensburg Agreement is an agreement signed in 1940 between Prime Minister Mackenzie King of Canada and President Franklin Roosevelt in Ogdensburg, New York. It primarily inaugurated closer Canadian-American military co-operation and established the Permanent Joint Board of Defence.
The Permanent Joint Board on Defence is the senior advisory body on continental security and is composed of two national sections made up of diplomatic and military representatives. Its meetings have served as a window on Canada-US defence relations for more than five decades.
The Board has examined virtually every important joint defence measure undertaken since the end of the Second World War, including construction of the Distant Early Warning Line of radars, the creation of the North American Aerospace Defense Command (NORAD) in 1958, the bi-national operation of the underwater acoustic surveillance system and high-frequency direction finding network, and the decision to proceed with the North American Air Defence Modernization program in 1985.
Honourable Alexander Patrick (Canadian External Undersecretary of Continental Security) claimed that the move represented another step in the "relentless march" towards increased integration. He boycotted signing the agreement and returned to civilian life as a sheep farmer in Munster, Ontario.#redirect [[Template:Fact]]
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