GEOG 328 Lecture Notes - Lecture 12: Full Employment, Corporatism, Money Supply
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Has drawn the life blood out of canada. Lead to unemployment (25%) --> there was no welfare which meant that the were lack of benefits for the unemployed. Lead to unemployed people roaming the country and hitching rides for work. There was no economic solution but the introduction of world war 2 brought a new economic development for canada (e. g. production of artillery) --> however the fact that warfare is always tied up with economic development raises questions. Mackenzie king hoped that the nazi regime could be appeased and that war could be avoided. He met hitler in berlin, germany in june 1937. His hopes of avoiding the war were completely eradicated, the onset of war was highly likely. He insisted that the canadian parliament would decide on. Canada"s participation in the war (not the british government, as the statute of westminster had ceded it"s independence to.
