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...year or less; $20-a-month Government "dividends" for everybody; $60-a-month handouts for all unemployables 21 or over. Like any good Social Creditor, he berated banks, and for homey campaign purposes he gave his party a fine French-Canadian name: L'Union des Electeursc de Pontiac. He spent only $4,500 campaigning, but he wound up with about 11,000 votes - a few hundred more than the dumfounded Liberals, 4,000 more than the Conservatives (who reportedly spent...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Canada: QUEBEC: Kick in the Pants | 9/30/1946 | See Source »

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