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From Sunday's Toronto Star:

The U.S. Central Intelligence Agency saw Brian Mulroney’s new government as a welcome alternative to the “gratuitous negative” attitude of the often prickly Pierre Trudeau, declassified documents show.

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The intelligence agency sized up the Mulroney government’s likely course of action on foreign investment, defence policy, energy strategy, the environment and fisheries.

The level of scrutiny — despite the fact Canada was a close friend and ally — is hardly surprising, said Sarah-Jane Corke, who teaches U.S. intelligence history and foreign policy at Dalhousie University in Halifax.

“It would have been completely normal for them to do this,” she said. “They would have studies like this on every country in the world, and especially issues that reflect in any way their national security objectives.”

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