To begin with, it is important to examine the Soviet – Canadian relations period. According to Petryshyn , 1974, during 1920 – 1930, Canada conducted a partially independent foreign policy in the context of the British Empire. Canadian political parties kept aside the involvement into European relations that could make Canada bear the number of international liabilities. In the meantime, being an emerging country, Canada needed trade partners, including the USSR. Gorodetsky (1994) claimed that the Anglo – Soviet Trade Agreement of 1921 presented a new basis of East – West diplomacy, Canada followed British policy by developing trade relations with the USSR until 1927, when the Soviet Union exercised the dumping policy (Hinther, 2011 ) by lowering
