History 1810E Lecture Notes - Lecture 22: The Book Of Lost Tales, Japanese Canadians, Unemployment Insurance Act 1920
22 Oct 2018
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Restrictions on clothing comes in (cid:373)e(cid:374)"s suits for style (cid:449)as (cid:271)a(cid:374)(cid:374)ed outlawed cause i. Taxes: increase enormously, at the beginning of the war if you were a typical household. Rationing: came in 1942, for sugar, tea, coffee, and butter it was illegal to trade. Currency controls: after the war, you could only exchange a certain amount of. Restrictions on how much gas you could buy. 1944: government deemed certain major cities to be overcrowded meant people. *all of these changes show the governments control. Children were affected; if you were in school you would be collecting metal, and paper. Conservatives had good policies but a lazy leader, ndp had bad policies but good leader. Prime minister going into the war is mackenzie king. One of his first actions was to consolidate party in power who was helped by his opposition, who tried to play politics with king.
