Word: saskatchewaners
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Canadian provinces were ready for an important venture in democracy this week. Saskatchewan and Alberta had added new seats to their Legislatures, to be filled by the armed services. No other province or U.S. state had ever tried this kind of direct soldier representation...
...Saskatchewan's plan, modeled after one the province tested in the last war, provided for election, some time before Oct. 30, of a member of the Legislature from each of the three main military areas: 1) Newfoundland and all of Canada except Saskatchewan; 2) Britain and western Europe; 3) the Mediterranean theater. Officials were already overseas to handle ballots. When nominations closed Sept. 28, there were 50 candidates. Eligible for election: anyone who had enlisted in the province and been in service at least six months...
Douglas retaliated by announcing that as soon as McNab vacated the premises Saskatchewan would convert Regina's $110,000 Government House into a home for the aged or for delinquent girls.* Then he had another idea: Let Ottawa instruct Saskatchewan's Chief Justice to perform the Lieutenant Governor's functions...
...King's Money. Socialist Premier Douglas had given Ottawa a good reason to remember that precedent. He threatened to welch on a $17,500,000 debt. On the joint guarantees of the Dominion and Saskatchewan Governments, Canadian banks had advanced money so that Saskatchewan's farmers could buy seed after the 1937 drought. It was Saskatchewan's obligation to collect the money. Socialist Douglas proposed to collect only 50% of the principal from the farmers, give the Dominion a provincial I.O.U. for the balance. And to the Federal Treasury, which already holds some...
What Premier Douglas forgot was that until the Socialists took over, the Federal Government of Mr. King still had the last word. If Saskatchewan ran out on her obligations, the Dominion could recoup by withholding Federal grants...