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Patriotic speech by Canadian Prime Minister near start of WW2.
WHAT CANADA IS DOING
A tribute to the Canadian People
Statement by
Right Hon. W. L. Mackenzie King M.P.
Prime Minister of Canada
House of Commons, March 25, 1941
More than a month has now elapsed since the resolution was introduced on which the war appropriation bill is based…We are enacting a measure which pledges Canada to the most stupendous effort in our national history…It is only eighteen months since we entered the war. Yet in that year and a half, our armed forces have grown to the point where to-day, in terms of services, there is a quarter of a million men on active service…in the next fiscal year , Canada’s direct war effort will cost the Canadian people $1,450,000,000…We have every right to take price in our industrial expansion…Britain’s deficit in her balance of payments with Canada is nowt estimated ay over #1,500,000,000. Canada must provide Britain with Canadian dollars to meet this deficit…we may all take pride in the vision, the unity, the resolution and the achievements of the Canadian people.
12 pages
Vertical crease
8” x 5”
