QUEBEC ELECTIONS
SWEEPING LIBERAL VICTORY SIGNIFICANCE OF VOTING QUEBEC, Oct. 26. Dominion officials acclaimed the Liberals’ victory as a sweeping endorsement of the Government’s war policy. Mr Mackenzie King asserted that it was impossible to exaggerate the significance of the voting, “which had shown that the people of Quebec share the determination of their fel-low-Canadians to resist aggression.” Mr Duplessis’s defeat has eased the tense situation in the Dominion Cabinet, from which three Liberal Ministers from Quebec were said to be resigning if their party was defeated. Seven of Mr Duplessis’s Cabinet were defeated. Mr Duplessis declined to comment. THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT EXTENSION OF LIFE PROBABLE OTTAWA, Oct. 26. The Canadian press here states that without the Quebec election there would doubtless have been a general election in 1940, but since the Government’s war record was to be a considerable extent the issue in Quebec. Mr Mackenzie King may consider the same a vote of confidence and sufficiently convincing to warrant asking Parliament to extend its life beyond the statutory five years in the .same way as at the outbreak of the World War, i j I i j |
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 23951, 28 October 1939, Page 11
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