Confederate troops in military exercise on the Canadian border in 1956 shortly after the assassination of President John A. Fauntroy IV
Canadian Prime Minister Laurent was reluctant to withhold starting WWIII after the CSAF air strikes on Winnipeg, Halifax, and Vancouver. Canada 3 days after the airstrikes to ward off further Confederate aggression responded with a nuclear test in British Columbia, and further JBU attacks on CS border towns. The CSA responded to the nuclear detonation in kind, by having their ally South Africa detonate its first bomb. The CS puppet regimes in South Africa and Rhodesia then saw and increased presence of CS military advisors. The Canadians wouldn't back down. Canadian armored units were placed at "Check Point Lincoln" on the border with the city of Detroit. The direct construction of the Cotton Curtain began under President Marshall who on state TV announced then "End of warm relations between the CS and Canada". The later part of 1957 was spent trying to put up the actual border wall. In 1958, two years after the assassination the CSA promptly responded to the Canadian backed revolution in Cuba with the President saying to the media. "Let me make it clear, that it is in the CSA's best interests, that the people of Quebec have their own state free from the Canadian molotto way of life. The Quebecois need a home free from this sense that the Africa is the same as a white man. That is what is corrupting pure white men from taking over the world." Mashall the the Democrats with their "Abolitionist Scare" failed to win the election of 1960 leaving a more liberal JFK to power.