Was the Ogdensburg Agreement a Surrender of Canadian Autonomy?

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on Defence (PJBD) being presented. Dzuiban states, "the study is based largely on official records. Full access was given the author to the pertinent official U.S. records." This document also has limitations. For example, its value is limited by the fact that it was authored by a solely American committee, the primary author only being a doctoral student, and the fact that none of the members of the authoring team were on the PJBD. In addition, its purpose was to provide information for American "officers in the service schools" , complicating the information needed for secondary school students. Also, despite its attention to detail, this book does not solely focus on the Ogdensburg Agreement and only includes Canadian documents from the public domain.
Another source used in the investigation is The Canadian-American Permanent Joint Board on Defence, 1940-1945, a journal article written by Colonel C.P. Stacey and published in 1954. Stacey was a history professor at the ...

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the rise of Hitler and Japanese imperialism prompted inter-military cooperation between Canada and the US due to the threat of invasion. While the first of these meetings occurred in 1937, it was not until the signing of the Ogdensburg Agreement on August 18, 1940 that this was fully realized. This agreement provided that the Permanent Joint Board on Defence (PJBD) be established, which, to this day, holds meetings with representatives from both Canada and the US regarding North America's defence. The Board's role was to propose recommendations to one or both governments, who could either accept or reject them. Furthermore, there is debate among historians over the question: Was the ...

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