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"Pearson's record speaks for itself: He had Canada deliver weapons to the French to put down the Algerian and Vietnamese independence movements. Asked in Parliament, Pearson refused to call for Nelson Mandela's release from prison. Pearson backed the mid-1950s CIA coups in Iran and Guatemala. He incited individuals to destroy a Canadian peace group after it called for the outlawing of nuclear weapons. Pearson threatened to quit as external affairs minister if Canada failed to deploy ground troops to Korea."