Mackenzie King and the Prairie West by Robert A. Wardhaugh

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By Robert A. Wardhaugh

It is mostly assumed that the decline of the Liberal celebration at the Canadian prairies all started in 1957, following the electoral triumph of the 'beloved prairie son,' John Diefenbaker, and the revolutionary Conservatives. in response to Robert Wardhaugh, although, the disintegration of Liberal fortunes within the prairie west begun a lot previous, through the tumultuous period of William Lyon Mackenzie King.

Guiding us via a maze of western matters, from price lists to freight charges, Wardhaugh analyzes the political administration of the prairie west through Canada's longest-serving leading minister. He argues that Mackenzie King courted the prairies so long as western payment used to be crucial to nationwide fiscal improvement, yet replaced his perspective in the course of the melancholy years whilst the quarter grew to become a monetary burden. King's sympathy for western matters abated even additional, says Wardhaugh, throughout the years of battle and post-war reconstruction, whilst the emphasis used to be on and, extra accurately, the producing matters of crucial Canada. The decline of Liberal Party's effect within the west therefore paralleled the transforming into divide among the zone and significant Canada.

This research offers a gathering floor for a couple of interlocking topics. In reading Mackenzie King's remedy of the prairies, Wardhaugh creates a finished view of the method of western alienation, while clarifying the differing political pursuits of the 3 prairie provinces.

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Norris and the Liberals were waiting in the wings with a coalition of suffragists, prohibitionists, and farm and labour movements. The agrarian movement in each of the Prairie provinces reflected the particular nature of that province. In Manitoba what has been called 'crypto-Liberalism' dominated the Farmers' organizations. '43 In Saskatchewan the Liberal base was stronger and the party better organized than in Manitoba, but the provincial government still emphasized its efficient and progressive nature through the language of agrarian reform.

The Liberal party has fashioned a programme in which the Farmers have every reason to believe,' he noted. ' 12 Mackenzie King had raised his colours, and as far as he was concerned they were the same as those in the Prairie West: ' "United we stand; divided we fall"...

His government was consulting the Grain Growers' organization on legislation, and efforts were being made to bring its members into government. The provincial Liberals were taking pains to dissociate themselves from those in Ottawa. When it came time for Saskatchewan to select its delegates to the leadership convention, the Martin government did everything in its power to send a In Search of the New Jerusalem, 1874-1919 31 contingent favourable to the Farmers. 'Let me make myself clear,' the premier told a party gathering in Saskatchewan.

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