Causes
Relief
Citizen Unrest
Politics
A Means to an End
300
Made many recommendations with regards to taxation, unemployment insurance, and equalization payments.
What is the Rowell-Sirois Commission?
400
This happened starting in 1928 and lasted almost 8 years, ruining crops and bankrupting farmers.
What is a drought?
400
A set of proposed programs and policies by R.B. Bennett that targeted economic recovery, but was put into effect too late.
What is the New Deal?
400
Blamed the English minority in Quebec for Quebec's bad economy.
What is the Union Nationale?
500
These led to factories laying off workers and slowing production, ultimately hurting the economy.
What are stockpiles of goods?
500
This helped farmers build reservoirs and irrigation systems to combat damages caused by droughts, put into effect in 1935.
What is the Prairie Farm Rehabilitation Administration Act?
500
These ensued when Bennett labelled the leaders of the Relief Camp Worker's Union as radicals and troublemakers.
What are riots?
500
A socialist party that appealed to working-class Canadians.
What is the CCF (Cooperative Commonwealth Federation)?
500
This shortened work days, heightened minimum wage, and raised relief payments by 20% in BC.
What is the "Little New Deal"?
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