The Auckland Star: WITH WHICH ARE INCORPORATED The Evening News, Morning News, The Echo and The Sun. MONDAY, OCTOBER 14, 1935. CANADIAN ELECTIONS.

Auckland Star, Volume LXVI, Issue 243, 14 October 1935, Page 6

The Auckland Star: WITH WHICH ARE INCORPORATED The Evening News, Morning News, The Echo and The Sun.

MONDAY, OCTOBER 14, 1935. CANADIAN ELECTIONS.

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Five years zzo Mr. Mackenzie Kind's \ Liberal Government- Trent to the electors of | Canada and was Leavilv defeated. Unless all |

*j po!i:ica! observer; hare been seriously misled I ice Liberals are likely to have their fall revenge at the elections to-day. Seldom have the Liberals been so cocksure oi success. Their Conservative opponents, handicapped by the illness of their leader. 3lr. Bennett, and weakened by tie secession of an able Minister, Mr. Stevens, who has formed a "Keconstruc- ; lion. Party."' is ve had to combat- the ill-will and prejudice of the large number of people wuo nave sunered during the degression and blame the Government for it. The depression ■was well under way when the Conservatives entered office, but on such facts as that their opponents have laid no stress. As in other countries, unemployment in | <_ anada is a major political problem, and the | Conservatives* efforts to grapple with it have I not been notably successful. The Liberals ! contend that a lowering of the tariff would j immediately lead to an mtrease in employment, and that it would also stimulate the railway transport business and by increasing the railways' earnings remove some of the burden of railway deficits from the taxpayer. Hence Mr. King proposes to lower the tariff, while increasing preferences to British goods. This proposal is of some importance to New Zealand, for daring the Bennett regime the conditions restricting entry to the Canadian! market have been extremely discouraging to exporters in this Dominion. The differences between Conservatives and Liberals in Canada are not so great as party leaders wish the electors to think, and there is developing a movement to bring about the formation of a National Government. There are other plain indications that many electors are not satisfied with either of the old parties. The Co-operative Commonwealth Federation, which may be compared with the Labour Partv in New Zaaland, is fighting its first national campaign, and the Social Credit Party, which recently eaptured Alberta in the provincial election, has hastily entered the national field in the hope of electing sufficient members to influence the Federal parties. Both Conservatives and Liberals are aware of the new political currents, and in consequence, according to one observer, '"the whole tone of all the party programmes reveals a general left-ward movement in outlook and policv; and doctrines and ideas which isolated cliques a few years ago were discussing in whispers are now quite fashionable in all circles of} society." It may be safely predicted that the j Liberals, if they regain power as expected, will face a term of office more difficult than any in their party's history.