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Summary
King did a bad job during the depression. He didn't want to help out and he made a speech that he wouldn't contribute a five cent to non Liberal governments.
_Prime Minister King and The Depression
_-King thought the depression is a short term problem.
-He believed it was Provincial governments' responsibility
-Federal government shouldn't help out
-He wouldn't contribute "a five-cent piece" to non-Liberal governments
-didn't deal with unemployment
-relief
-Lost election in 1930 to R.B.Bennett(Conservative)
-He believed it was Provincial governments' responsibility
-Federal government shouldn't help out
-He wouldn't contribute "a five-cent piece" to non-Liberal governments
-didn't deal with unemployment
-relief
-Lost election in 1930 to R.B.Bennett(Conservative)
_"As to the advantages of temperance in the training of
the armed forces and of its benefits to the members of the forces
themselves, there can be no doubt in the world.
"
William Lyon Mackenzie King
William Lyon Mackenzie King