LIBERAL DEBACLE
THE ONTARIO ELECTIONS
NEW YORK, Aug. 8. /
The Ontario election was more spectacular and more significant than anticipated, as the defeat of the Liberals was unexpectedly emphatic, says the Ottawa correspondent of the New York Times. The Progressive Conservative Party is certain of forming a Government, and the result may fairly be interpreted as giving the future political pattern for the whole country. Both the Progressive Conservative and Canadian Commonwealth Federation Parties claim that the Liberal debacle reflected public discontent with Mr Mackenzie King. Even the Liberals conceded that the electorate seemed weary of the present Federal Government, and anxious to try new men and methods. Even the fact that the Government has brought the country successfully through the war has not proved good electoral material against the argument that it should have done better, or against the promise of a new and vastly improved social order.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 25300, 10 August 1943, Page 3
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