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...Ontario riding of Grey North, the political temperature rose. Cried CCF Candidate Albert Earl Godfrey: "We should . . . conscript wealth and industry as well as men." Cried Tory Candidate Garfield Case: his opponents were "outsiders," the CCF was fascist, General McNaughton was "incompetent." Cried Liberal Candidate Andrew B. L. McNaughton, National Defense Minister: "The Canadian Army overseas is being adequately reinforced...
Defense Minister Andrew G. L. McNaughton himself announced the shameful news. First, he told of the arrival in Britain of "more than 8,300" home-defense draftees (zombies) who had been conscripted for overseas service. He said that the program for reinforcing Canada's overseas forces was "progressing according to schedule." Then the General confessed...
...adopting partial conscription: at least 16,000 of the Dominion's 60,000-odd home-defense draftees would be compelled to serve overseas; 5,000 would be sent in December, 5,000 in January, 6,000 in succeeding months. The commitments had been met, General McNaughton now admitted, only because the Government had anticipated substantial desertions, had moved enough troops to ports to "insure embarkation of a full complement of reinforcements." Undeniable was the fact that thousands of Canadian draftees simply did not want to go to war. (At week's end it was announced that throughout Canada...
Politically, the crisis might have historic repercussions. It was sure to be felt in the important by-election in the Ontario riding of Grey North, where Defense Minister McNaughton himself is running for a seat in Parliament. Moreover, a Federal election was in the offing. The opponents of Prime Minister William Lyon Mackenzie King now had election ammunition beyond their wildest hopes...
...Prime Minister also said that if General McNaughton were elected, the session would be short, and that there would be a general election call "within a few months," certainly before Parliament's legal life ends April...