The only socialist government in Can ada faced the toughest fight of its young life. Big business, which had seethed in silence for 15 months while Saskatchewan's CCFers adopted a batch of socialist laws, suddenly struck back. The Canadian Pacific Railway, the Dominion Loan & Mortgage Association and the Hudson's Bay Co. appealed to the Federal Government to void three key Saskatchewan laws :
¶ A Farm Security Act, prohibiting mortgage foreclosures in bad crop years.
¶ A Mineral Taxation Act (and its amending Act of 1945), which imposes a flat annual 3ٕ-an-acre tax on mineral rights, a tax...
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