Canada: POLITICS: Walkaway

From the start, everyone knew that the federal by-election in New Brunswick's York-Sunbury riding was one to watch. It would be a gauge of public feeling on such close-to-home issues as the rising cost of living. It was also an election in which the Liberal Government's newly appointed Fisheries Minister Milton Fowler Gregg was seeking his seat in Parliament. Yet York-Sunbury was no Liberal pushover: the Liberals had been able to capture it only twice (1935 and 1945) in 33 years. Furthermore, for the first time in the riding's history, the ambitious young socialist CCF Party, which polled only...

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