CANADIAN ELECTIONS
C AMPAIGN OPENED PREMIER OUTLINES ISSUES (United Press Assn.—Elec. Tel. Copyright) OTTAWA, Feb. 7 The Prime Minister, Mr W. L. Mackenzie King, opened the election campaign with a broadcast speech in which he said the real issues were the maintenance of national unity and the Government’s war policy. He warned the public against vague suggestions of a National Government, and urged the electors to demand foreknowledge of the personnel of any new Administration. On the people’s decision, said Mr Mackenzie King, 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 upon it, or from pledges to extend Parliament’s life in wartime without reference to the people, or from a socalled National Government that might enforce conscription or disfranchise many classes of Canadians. A Parliament indefinitely extended could easily become a dictatorship.
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Waikato Times, Volume 126, Issue 21034, 9 February 1940, Page 2
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