CANADA: Decisions on Deal

Like the U. S., Canada is a confederation. Its constitution, the British North America Act, 1867, apportions governing authority between the Federal and Provincial Governments. During Depression, Canada was also given a New Deal, hastily fabricated in 1934-35 by Canada's Conservative Prime Minister Richard Bedford Bennett in a last-minute attempt to escape the tag of "Canada's Hoover," stand forth as "Canada's Roosevelt." This attempt failed. Prime Minister Bennett thereupon ignored his own New Deal legislation, lost last October's elections and gave way to Liberal Prime Minister William Lyon Mackenzie King.

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