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Newfoundland in the 30s

I don't actually know anything about Newfoundland in the 30s.

R.B. Bennett

Credited for the invention of the Bennett Buggy (TM)

Likes : labor camps, writing letters, and tariffs

Hates : fun, unions, communists

Call me "Iron Heel Bennet" or "Bonfire Bennett"

Selfies

The Co-operative Commonwealth Federation

The TL;DR version of the Regina Manifesto

  1. institute government-controlled economic planning
  2. assert greater control of banking through the socialization of finance
  3. establish state ownership of transportation, communications and electric power companies
  4. create agriculture programs to stabilize prices and production
  5. increase the regulation of international trade
  6. create co-operative institutions to help farmers buy what they need at fair prices
  7. write a new labour code to give workers more power to determine working conditions, as well as to provide insurance for work-related injuries (see Workers’ Compensation)
  8. provide free medical coverage to Canadians with government-run health care
  9. amend the Constitution to abolish the Senate and to give the federal government more control over national economic development
  10. reorient external relations to promote peace and disarmament
  11. establish fairer tax policies
  12. amend the Criminal Code and rewrite immigration laws to allow more freedom of expression and equal treatment before the law
  13. make the social justice system fairer to all
  14. implement an emergency program of social spending to address the immediate challenges of the Depression