Question: what does australia and canada have in common

title: Australia–Canada relations
text: This difference in approach was so profound that Mackenzie King refused to meet Evatt to discuss their views on the great powers ' efforts to secure a veto in the Security Council . Instead , he sent his heir apparent , the stately and dignified minister of justice , Louis St. Laurent . The meeting was unsuccessful . Evatt considered St. Laurent `` a pawn in a move to defeat the Australian case '' and dismissed him as `` an American stooge . '' The bilateral relationship remained tense during the immediate postwar period . This partly reflected the disruptive influence of Evatt , who continued to irritate Canadian diplomats and politicians . His success at pressing Australia 's claim to the `` Commonwealth '' seat on the U.N. 's first Security Council in 1946 was particularly galling . More significantly , this tension reflected very different security concerns . Australia , haunted by the spectre of a reconstructed Japan , was anxious to press ahead with a peace settlement that would remove this threat . At a conference in Canberra in September 1947 it sought the support of its Commonwealth partners to push the process ahead . Ottawa , however , was dismayed by the Australian bid to re-fashion a Commonwealth bloc . Washington was almost certain to resent the Australian demarche , which seemed likely to jeopardize Anglo - American cooperation as the cold war erupted in Europe . This sharp geographic difference in focus , which only increased in 1948 when Canada joined in the discussions that resulted in the North Atlantic Treaty Organization , diminished the possibility of bilateral cooperation . Indeed , by the late - 1940s , relations were so strained that they became the object of gentle derision in Ottawa . After a meeting with Princess Elizabeth and the infant Prince Charles , Lester Pearson confessed to his diary the `` hope that relations ... were not further disturbed by the fact that I was able to make the baby laugh while ( J.B. ) Chifley ( Curtin 's successor as prime minister ) was not . ''