Canada: THE DOMINION: Swing Left

Canada's Liberal Government, which has been pushed steadily left by the socialist CCF, last week went the whole way in its control of wheat. The Government whipped through two readings in the House of Commons a bill to permit the Government Wheat Board to buy, sell and regulate the marketing of all Canadian wheat until at least 1950. (The third and final reading of the bill would be routine.)

The Government took control of wheat during the war and closed free trading in wheat on the Winnipeg Grain Exchange. But this was the first time Canada has stretched a wartime...

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