GOPH 375 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: World War I, Old Age Security, Full Employment

• School: University of Calgary
• Department: Geophysics
• Course: GOPH 375
• Professor: Alan Russell Hildebrand

Document Summary

Again war: canadians enter the war reasonably united, with a grim determination to see it trough. Too many canadian war memorials for there to be any illusions. Term used at the time to describe health care?? was social security it was viewed that people deserved social justice and security. War cr3eated higher standard of living and expectations for a higher postwar standard of living. Demonstrated what centralized planning and administration and massive government spending could do. Combined with depression experiences to fundamentally change. The war ended great depression in the 1930s. A lot of canadian believed that we would go back into depression after the war and wanted security. There was a loss of employment after the war which made them more concerned. When it comes to mobilizing the economy, the economy was in the hands of business, but it was believed that it should be left in the hands of the economists.