In addition, the States had socially influenced Canada greatly, in terms of culture. Canada did gain some political independence, hampered by the fact that Canada depended on the United States for much of its social and economic success. Canada’s prime minister, Mackenzie King, did not follow the regular rules set by Britain. Instead he refused to send Canadian troops with Britain to invade Turkey in 1922. (Cranny p.55) Normally, when Britain went to war, Canada would automatically be at war as well, but King took a big step in not following orders from the mother country.
Pierre Elliott Trudeau was one of the greatest prime ministers in Canada’s history. During his time in power he accomplished the balance of equality between the English and French Canadians, he passed many acts and bills, and he kept Quebec united with Canada by giving an awe inspiring speech. All of his goals made an impact on Canada to grow as one nation. Pierre Elliott Trudeau was truly an inspiring prime minister through the political and social impression he made on Canada and the world. Pierre Elliot Trudeau kept Canada united by avoiding the separation of Quebec.
In the years 1930 – 1932 Bruning had lost popularity as he reduced unemployment benefit and increased taxes, all the time not having the majority backing of the reichstag (so he was dependant on Hindenburg's decree). Following the advice of Army officer Von Schleicer, Bruning was removed by Hindenburg, meaning a threat to Hitler's future power was eliminated. After this, Von Papen (a friend of Hindenburg) was appointed Chancellor. He was leader of the centre party but only had 68 supporters in the reichstag and like Schleicer, was dependant on the government by decree. In an attempt to gain more support, Von Papen held an election, only to be bested by the Nazis, who won by a landslide of 230 seats and as result, became the largest party of the Reichstag.
So because a hockey player makes a ridiculous wage a teacher should too? This is the typical handout, me-to dipshit argument that makes no sense at all. I think the wages paid to professional athletes are disgusting, but I could care less, that is a private sector issue between the goons and the goofballs willing to pay it. People who think they deserve more money because some political figure (or athlete in this warped argument) is getting paid more are simple dipshits. Giving 70 MP’s a 5,000 dollar raise is chump change to giving 42,000 teachers or bus drivers, or garbage persons, or phone jockeys, paper shufflers a 15% wage increase.
Though Canada was a patchwork of former colonies, the railway created unity and helped Canada grow past its conception and infancy. In 1867 Nova Scotia, New Brunswick, Canada East (present day Quebec) and Canada West (present day Ontario) passed the British North America Act and became the Dominion of Canada. The inhabitants of the Dominion of Canada did not truly know each other and feared losing their regional identities. French and English speaking Canadians were especially alien to each other. They were separated by language, religion and culture.
There were circumstances existing within the Dominion which lead leaders to push for confederation. First of all, in 1865, United States cancelled the “Canadian/ American Reciprocity Treaty”, the free trade agreement which allowed goods to move between Eastern Canada and U.S.A. This meant that Eastern Canada would have to look for new places to ship their goods. A union of all of Canada could become this route of trade. Secondly, in the Province of Canada, the government had difficulty reaching agreement, because there was no party that could have majority support.
The Nor’westers were worried that they could lose their fur supply and pemmican. In 1815 the Nor’westers tempted people to move to Upper Canada with offers of better land. The Earl of Selkirk quickly resettled the colony. Some tension between the nor’westers, with their allies the Metis, and the settlers led to violence. North West Company men and half-breeds now resorted to violence on a large scale, killing 22 in the massacre of Seven Oaks (June 19, 1816).
Labour promised to create a New Jerusalem, a prosperous country where all strive for the better. However, Source A states that “They had disastrously overestimated Britain’s ability to export”, Britain needed to create money for itself after America’s Lend Lease policy which left Britain in debt for over 50 years, Britain was unable to export a sufficient amount of goods to provide itself with enough money to stabilize the economy, the source follows up with “underestimated her need for dollars”. Britain’s way of dealing with debt was to create more debt for itself; John Maynard Keynes went over to the United States in order to ask America for a loan without interest, the loan which was bestowed upon Britain by the United States and Canada was $9.5 billion. One of the reasons Labour was unable to create a New Jerusalem was due to the fact that they were unable to shut down the debt which anchored Britain’s economy, Labour had little funds to initiate its promises and plans, leading to the failure of a New Jerusalem. Another reason that Labour failed to build a New Jerusalem was the fact that they were unable to upkeep their promise of housing.
To what extent did the policies of Sergei Witte address the problems facing Russia at the end of the nineteenth century? Russia faced many problems at the end of the nineteenth century. Under Minister of Finance Ivan Vyshnegradskii there had been famine because of high taxes on consumer goods which had forced peasants to sell more and more grain. The government were slow to act and, although they eventually enforced a ban on grain exports, 350,000 died of starvation or disease. Economically and industrially Russia was also falling far behind many other Western countries at the time, like Britain and Germany.
In his unexpected ascent to the top of British politics luck and circumstance were incredibly important in helping him achieve his ambitious plans to show the nature of his genius: Following the split in the Conservative Party over the Repeal of the Corn Laws, the Conservatives lost almost all of their politically talented MPs, thus leading for the party to be labelled the “Stupid Party” due to their minimal political interest and concern for the well-being of their land. Even in the 1850’s when Derby did manage to form the first Conservative Government for almost ten years, their lack of expertise and political ability was still a major hindrance to how they could perform in office in satisfying the needs of the electorate. Although this disastrous period of impotence was awful for the party, it did no harm to