This thesis describes the introduction into Canada, from the United States, of the Cooperative Wage Study (CWS) - a scheme of joint union-management job evaluation for the removal of wage rate inequities in the steel industry. it is especially concerned with the impact of the CWS programme upon the structure of industrial relations in this industry, and with the aims and objectives of both the union and management regarding it. A comparison of the origins of the plan in both the U.S.A. and Canada is made and a survey of the development of the programme carried out in two basic steel plants in Ontario. An evaluation of the results is attempted in the light of the original objectives, together with an assessment of the importance of CWS as an industrial relations technique. / Thesis / Master of Arts (MA)

This study examines whether Canada’s military’s interoperability with the United States affects Canadian sovereignty. The literature dealing with this subject is highly polarized arguing that such interoperability either significantly reduces our sovereignty or that it is necessary to maintain it. Successive Canadian governments, for example, have traditionally supported the military view that high levels of interoperability with our allies are needed for operations to proceed safely and effectively and that this poses no cost to Canadian sovereignty. The interoperability critics strongly disagree, arguing that increased interoperability, especially if it is with the United States, will diminish our foreign policy independence, our ability to refuse US military adventures, and our domestic sovereignty. In a limited sense this division in the literature allows one to comprehend the broad contours of the issue. Otherwise, recent works are marked by shifting definitions and unclear methodologies. These shortcomings have led to a reliance on conjecture, with the critics predicting damaging “future implications” as a result of Canada’s interoperability policies while governments promise outright gains. As a result, the Canadian public that underwrites the financial costs of such multi-billion dollar investments as the new F-35 fighter have little to guide them in assessing the widely claimed interoperability and sovereignty benefits or costs of the purchase. This thesis set about correcting these shortcomings by examining Canada’s interoperability history, defining the terms, developing clear hypotheses, and then testing them against recent issues and events. These included Canada's response to 9/11 and our decisions to participate, or not, in the 2003 invasion of Iraq and the war in Afghanistan. These produced six case studies within which events were assessed against the hypotheses that test for sovereignty gains or losses. The subsequent evaluation concluded that Canadian sovereignty was rarely at risk from Canada's military interoperability policy and Canada was normally able to enjoy an independent foreign policy. The only area where there were successive sovereignty costs was when Canada became overly dependent on US capabilities. This thesis also argued that the methodology would be useful in gauging the sovereignty implications of future cooperative projects.

This thesis is focused on an analysis of British-Canadian relations in 1921-1930, ie. mostly the first two terms of office of the Canadian Prime Minister William Lyon Mackenzie King, who significantly contributed to the change of relations of the oldest British dominion and his mother country. The thesis analyses the position of Canada towards Great Britain and the influence of the then British and Canadian government on the development of mutual relations, which have gone through important changes and led to the greater measure of Canadian independence in the chosen period. Specifically, the thesis will focus on the context of key international events, which had an impact on the British-Canadian relations: the Chanak crisis, the Halibut Treaty between Canada and the United States of America, the King-Byng affair (1926), the Imperial Conference of 1926 and the Canadian activity in the League of Nations.