Abstract

Canada's Post-War Election

This article focuses on Canada's post-war elections. Canada faces a national election immediately after the close of the European war. The vote on June 11, 1945 will reflect attitudes and sentiments induced by Canada's five and a half years of strenuous war effort. It will also reflect to some extent divisions of opinion on post-war policies. The present Liberal government of Prime Minister W.L. MacKenzie King goes to the people on its war record and on its program for post-war reconstruction. The Minister of National Defense had resigned in protest over the continuation of the policy of voluntary enlistment for overseas service, the Cabinet was badly split, the pressure in all pares of Canada outside of Quebec had risen to irresistible proportions.