Canadian Disunion

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“In the general election campaign of 1935, eight of Canada’s nine provincial Prime Ministers, all heading Liberal administrations, urged the election of the Liberal Party, headed by Mr. King, to Ottawa. The citizens of Canada heeded this advice only to find, less than three years later, internal strife multiplied. In the interim, moreover, only one province, Quebec, has changed the political character of its administration. Apparently, the deplorable state of national disunion, so evident at the present time, is caused by circumstances and conditions far removed from the labels of political parties”

Shane, H. “Canadian Disunion” Dalhousie Review, Volume 18, Number 2, 1938 https://dalspace.library.dal.ca/bitstream/handle/10222/57475/dalrev_vol18_iss2_pp157_164.pdf?sequence=1&isAllowed=y

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