1. The Great Depression: Political Impact
CCF
Social Credit Party
Union Nationale
Provincial Solutions
Change in Federal Government
Global Politics

2. Politics of Protest
While Ottawa struggled to find ways to cope with the Great Depression, some Canadians looked to new political parties for solutions

3. The Co-Operative Commonwealth Federation (CCF)
Canada’s first socialist party founded in the prairie provinces 1932
Promoted government control of the economy to ensure all Canadians benefit equally
J.S. Woodsworth party leader

4. The Regina Manifesto CCF Party Platform Opposed free market economics
Supported public ownership of key industries
Advocated social services and job creation programs

5. Social Credit Party
Social Credit platform based on the belief that capitalism was a wasteful and unequal system
The government must release money so people could spend it
Western Party led by William “Bible Bill” Abergart

6. Union Nationale Party to support Quebec Nationalism
Led by former Conservative Maurice Duplessis
Relied on Roman Catholic Church and rural voters
English minority controlled the provincial economy and was blamed for problems

7. Union Nationale Party Platform
Based upon:
Improved working conditions
Social insurance
Publically owned power
System of farm credits

8. Return of the King (3rd) 1935
King did NOT support government intervention in the economy
Argued that social services should only be introduced when the economy was strong

9. National Employment Commission 1936
King set up the NEC in 1936 to examine the state of unemployment in Canada
Commission recommended the federal government spend millions on job creation programs
King spent a fraction of the recommended amount

10. Royal Commission on Dominion-Provincial Relations1937
To examine the tense issues between the federal and provincial governments
The Commission recommended that the federal government pay unemployment and social benefits (pension) and equalization payments

11. Equalization Payments
The Federal government gives the poorer provinces grants to ensure that every province was able to offer its citizens the same level of services

12. Germany in the Great Depression
To meet the 32 billion dollar reparations payments, the German government printed more money
This actually lowered the value of their money
Yet prices of goods on the rise

13. Germany and The Big Three
The Big Three agreed to reduce the terms for Germany’s reparation payments so that Germany could actually make payments
US, France, Britain dependent on payments to keep own economy from failing

14. The Empire of Japan
Tariff increases and decline of international trade devastated manufacturing industry economy
Implemented Keynesian Economics
Spending government money allows the population to spend and therefore jumpstart the economic cycle
Implemented aggressive plan to expand territory into China’s Northern province of Manchuria

15. The End of the Great Depression
We will never know if the newly implemented economic plans to combat the Great Depression would have worked
WWII broke out and in turn caused an economic boom which ended the Great Depression