1957年12月,坐了25年冷板凳的进步保守党在迪芬贝克领导下,重返加拿大联邦政府执政。1960年10月政府改组时,原担任北方事务与国家资源部部长的阿尔文·汉密尔顿调任农业部长。谁也没料到。这个调动却使他与中华人民共和国结下了不解之缘,建立了长期的关系,直至改革开放的80年代末。 In December 1957, the Progressive Conservatives, who had sat for 25 years, returned to the Canadian federal government under the leadership of Dieffenbacher. When the government was reorganized in October 1960, Alvin Hamilton, formerly head of the Northern Affairs and State Resources Department, was transferred to the Minister of Agriculture. No one expected. This mobilization made him indissoluble with the People’s Republic of China and established a long-term relationship until the end of the reform and opening up in the late 1980s.