CANADIAN GENERAL ELECTION
Voting To Be Held In March By Telegraph.—Press Assn.—Copyright. (Received January 28, 7.30 p.m.) OTTAWA, January 27. The Canadian Press Association states that the Prime Minister. Mr. Mackenzie King, announced that the general election would be held on March 26. He promised to call Parliament together as early as possible if the Government were returned. Overseas voting will begin on March 14. but tlie results will not be known (ill a week after tlie civilian polling. Soldiers under tlie age of 21 will vote, following the .1017 precedent. All candidates will be required lo submit their campaign speeches to the Broadcasting Corporation for censorship. Mr. Mackenzie King said he hoped that Parliament would meet earl.\ i in April. The Liberal caucus passed a vote of confidence in the Primo Minister. Meanwhile, I lie formation of a National Government is the initial plank of the Conservatives, Dr. Manion, the leader, promising “a Cabinet of the country’s best brains,” adding that the present Government is incompetent in wartime as in peacetime.
The Conservative caucus passed -i resolution condemning tlie dissolution as :t violation of Parliaineiitjiry practice and an insult to members of Parliament.
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Dominion, Volume 33, Issue 106, 29 January 1940, Page 7
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