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in Canadian Gunboat Diplomacy: The Canadian Navy & Foreign Policy
edited by Ann Griffiths, Richard Gimblett and Peter Haydon

Abstract:

So you think Canada is above using military forces unilaterally for national purposes? Think again. Canada has used her navy to throw her weight around the Caribbean a few times….including a planned invasion of Jamaica in the 1970s.