PEOPLE TO DECIDE
Extent Of Canada’s War Effort
Election Campaign Opens
United Press Association—By Electric Telegraph—Copyright
(Received February 8, 8.30 p.m.) OTTAWA, February 8.
Mr Mackenzie King opened the election campaign with a broadcast address. He declared the real issues were the maintenance of national unity and the Government's war policy. He issued a warning against vague suggestions of a National Government and urged electors to demand foreknowledge of the personnel of any new administration. On the people’s decision depended not only Canada’s contribution to the war but the maintenance of her integrity and unity as a nation. Unity had not come from committing Canada to war before Parliament decided or from pledges to extend the life of Parliament in wartime without reference to the people or from so-called national government that might enforce conscription or disfranchise many classes of Canadians. Parliament, indefinitely extended, could easily become a dictatorship.
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Timaru Herald, Volume CXLVIII, Issue 21574, 9 February 1940, Page 7
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