The document summarizes the impact of the Great Depression in Canada through a presentation by Dr. Brian Payne. It discusses Canada's conservative response compared to the New Deal in the US. It also examines the political, economic, and social effects including the rise of new political parties, the impact on different regions and populations, and debates around national identity during this period.

1. The Great Depression
in Canada
Presentation by Dr. Brian Payne
Associate Professor, History and Canadian Studies, Bridgewater State University
and Visiting Fulbright Chair in North American Integration, Carleton University
Teaching Canada: A Professional Development Workshop for IBMA Educators
Offered by Fairfax County Public Schools and the National Resource Centers on Canada in the U.S.
Wednesday, November 30, 2016 - Newseum Learning Center - Washington, DC

2. Key Themes
 Canada’s Conservative Response
 There was no New Deal
 Reflecting on Capitalism
 Rural and Conservative Values
 National Policy
 A political-economic structure that celebrated industrial growth via resource extraction and
national integration
 Lack of Direction
 William Lyon Mackenzie King
 Richard Bedford Bennett

3. The Canadian Identity
 Statute of Westminster, 1931
 Was there a Canadian British identity?
 Was there a Canadian North American identity?
 Canadian novelists
 Morkey Callaghan
 Philippe Panneton
 Academic Debate
 Harold Innis
 Donald Creighton

4. Personal Impact of a Global Depression
 The Most Hard Off
 Unemployed
 Going on Relief
 Western farmers
 Palliser Triangle
 Government’s Reaction
 Seedbed of Radical Revolutions
 Labor Camps

5. The Depression in Politics
 National Policy
 John A. Macdonald
 Economic Development via Resource Extraction and National Integration
 Growing Regional Antagonism
 Maritime Rights Movement
 Progressive Parties
 New National Policy
 Rowell-Sirois Report on Dominion-Provincial Relations, 1937-1940

6. Richard Bedford Bennett
 Conservative Party
 $20 million aid package
 Tariffs
 1930 Tariff
 Commonwealth Economic Conference,
1932
 Critiques
 HH Stevens, Price Spread Investigation
 Trek on Ottawa, 1935
 Bennett’s “New Deal” Speeches
 A Psychological New Deal

7. William Lyon Mackenzie King
 Compromising within the Liberal
Party
 East versus West and the Inflation
Debate
 1933 Platform
 Prime Minister (again)
 Free Trade
 Central Bank Reform and Lending
 National Employment Commission
 Balanced Budget

8. J.S. Woodsworth
 Co-Operative Commonwealth
Federation
 Christian Socialism
 Moderate Reformism
 Progressives
 International Events
 Pacifism and World War

9. Maurice Duplesis
 Quebec
 Rural, Catholic, Conservative
 Economic Conflict was Ethnic Conflict
 La Survivance
 Reformism
 Action Libérale Nationale
 Union Nationale
 Return to Conservativism
 Padlock Law

10. “Bible Bill” Aberhart
 Social Credit
 Western Progressive Political
Tradition
 United Farmers of Alberta
 Social Credit Party
 Provincial Elections of 1935
 Balanced Budget
 Legislation Declared Void by
Supreme Court of Canada

11. Conclusion
 A Conservative Response to
Depression
 Economics
 Balanced Budget
 Tariff Debates
 Social Leadership
 Downfall of the National Policy
 Lack of Popular Critics
 No Muckrakers
 Liberalism in Canada
 Post-War
 Human Rights