History 2201E Lecture 15: Lecture 15 Part 4 – Canadian Politics in the 1930s
10 Jul 2012
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Lecture 15 part 4 canadian politics in the 1930s. 1930s politics: cooperative commonwealth federation (ccf) Came out of the farmers union and remnants of the. Woodsworth elected the president of the party; spokesman of the winnipeg general strike. Platform is known as the regina manifesto. Program to meet the problems of the depression and long term socialism. Becomes the new democratic party in the 1950s: union nationale. Provincial party in quebec, led by maurice duplessis. Duplessis not a socialist, party stood on the radical. Closely to related to the rise of industrialization of quebec: despite the new trends in politics, the depression simply went on, election of 1935. King wins a majority: king"s government. Recommendations of the rowell-sirois commission are moot because of the beginning of world war ii.
