Until the last great war, a general expectation of material improvement was an idea peculiar to Western man. Now war and its aftermath have made economic and social progress a political imperative in every quarter of the globe.

This document laid out a plan to merge the Royal Canadian Navy the Royal Canadian Air Force and the Canadian Army to form a single service called the Canadian Armed Forces. Pearson Park in St. Early political career

In 1948 Prime Minister Louis St.

In 1967 his government passed Bill C-168 de facto abolishing capital punishment in Canada (by restricting it to a few capital offenses for which it was never used and which themselves were aboliLester B. Pearsond in 1976). During Pearson's time as Prime Minister his minority government introduced universal health care student loans the Canada Pension Plan the Order of Canada and the current Canadian flag.