HIST 2600 Lecture 15: HIST 2600 Week 8
Document Summary
United states agreed that anything canada was producing to help the uk would go on the lend lease tab: trying to keep canada"s economy stable. Us tried to increase spending in canadian markets. Increasing degree of connectedness between canada and usa. Cdn govt is engaging in more areas. New measures for financing: income tax spikes, leap in corporate income taxes. By the end of the war the federal debt was just shy of billion. Agriculture plays a large part on the homefront. Ration cards exist for certain cards, but just to conserve not because there was a famine or anything. Many more people were eating eggs and meat. Domestic labour force was shrinking: many women in industry especially were being used. It was meant to be short term (mainly just for the war: amount of job training for comparable levels of job would be less for women. Some provinces created daycare programs: almost immediately disbanded after the war.
