Posted on 11/10/08
COVER STORY: SIX WAYS TO AVOID A REPEAT
Move quickly, be decisive The early response by the politicians to the onset of the Depression was denial. "In the 1930s, there was a reluctance to intervene ... the thought that this was a temporary adjustment," said Bill Waiser, a professor of history at the University of Saskatchewan. The two prime ministers who governed during the Depression era, Mackenzie King and R.B. Bennett, at times used the constitution to argue that unemployment and relief were provincial matters - there was no national unemployment insurance scheme - and Ottawa initially threw only meagre, "temporary" support to them, Prof. Waiser said.
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