Without warning, at 7pm on July 18 1973, Prime Minister Gough Whitlam slashed every single import tariff at once – starting at midnight. It’s the kind of bold political leadership we rarely see today.
Canadian Plastics magazine turns 80 this summer, and what a long, strange trip it’s been. Here’s a look at our industry from World War II to COVID-19, and all the years in between, as we covered it.