The following excerpt is from Freedom Fighter: John Diefenbaker’s Battle for Canadian Liberties and Independence by Bob Plamondon, published by the Aristotle Foundation for Public Policy.

Upon John Diefenbaker’s death in 1979 it was one of his successors as prime minister who summed up the Prairie populist’s greatest achievement. “I was struck,” Pierre Trudeau said, “by ...

Before the election of 1957, John Diefenbaker promised to shift Canada’s foreign trade away from the U.S. and toward Britain; to bring foreign trade into balance; to increase ownership of ...

The "John Diefenbaker Defender of Human Rights and Freedom Award" remains in limbo, last handed out in late 2014 by then-foreign affairs minister John Baird, a keen admirer of the late prime minister.

Glass of milk in hand, John Diefenbaker confers with reporters after the 1979 victory of the government of Joe Clark — the first Progressive Conservative election victory since he was party ...

At a dinner in January to honour Sir John A. Macdonald, Prime Minister Stephen Harper stated, "If ever there was a Conservative prime minister whose reputation needs to be reclaimed from Liberal ...

Prime Minister John Diefenbaker’s government and his Conservative Party lay in shambles. Triggered by a bluntly undiplomatic U.S. note accusing Canada of reneging on its nuclear defense ...

TORONTO - Twice-married former Canadian prime minister John Diefenbaker — always believed to have been childless — may have fathered not one but two sons, leaving progeny scattered across the ...

President John F. Kennedy with Prime Minister John Diefenbaker seen here in Ottawa, during his 1961 visit to Canada. Photo by CP PHOTO/DW/staff/The Canadian Press. Article content.