Mackenzie King Leadership

He had many good qualities of a successful leader, which is why a lot of people liked him. He had good communication skills and he was trustworthy, during one of Trudeau’s Prime Minister races against the Progressive Conservatives, he promised all the citizens that he would eliminate or lower the sale tax if he won. He kept his words and after he won the election, the sale tax did become lower. He did this because he wanted to share the wealth of Canada more evenly among all different social classes. Other than that, he also has a visionary outlook, his action speaks louder than words, he has the ability to motivate people around him, he is consistent and he has the ability to stand against critics. Besides, Trudeau was a very educated person himself, he went to some of the best schools like the London school of Economics, the Jesuit College Jean- de- Brebeuf, Harvard University and Mcgill University and was very educated politically and economically. Before being a PM, Trudeau started his political career as a lawyer, then an economic policy adviser, that’s why he has so many experiences in these areas, making him even more successful and

During world war 2 mackenzie king showed that Canada is a force to be reckoned with and not just an colony under britain's control. Mackenzie king’s close friendship with British Prime Minister Winston Churchill and U.S. President F. D. Roosevelt was a huge cornerstone of the allied effort. Mackenzie king mobilized the canadian air forces and built the royal canadian air force .Mackenzie king implemented conscription in this war without much crisis between the french and english canadians by making conscription for defense only for most of the war, however he did send some of the defense conscripted soldiers to europe to fight at the end of the war. Mackenzie king put everything into the war effort to

Firstly, the Conscription Crisis of 1942 provoked conflict between the French and English Canadians, but also changed Canadian identity positively during the 1940s. Ever since World War ll began and Canada joined the war the French Canadians highly opposed to the idea of conscription; “[...]English-Canadians, who were mostly in favour of conscription, and French-Canadians, who were strongly opposed.” To begin with, the prime minister of Canada at the time, Mackenzie King had acknowledged the great disagreement the French Canadians had against conscription and made a promise to the nation: “King’s government [...] had promised the nation, and particularly Quebec, that it would not send any conscripts to serve overseas.” The last thing that King wanted to do was to impose conscription especially when Quebec strongly believed in anti-conscription: “The Quebec ministers kept a strong vigil over King's anti-conscription predisposition, reminding him of the terrible divisiveness of the World War 1

The Suez crisis was a conflict that could have easily turned into a third World War. With a battle between the Israelis and Egyptians at Sinai, the British and French invasion of Egypt, and nuclear threats from the Soviet Union, all of the elements were present to escalate the conflict and pull other countries into the fray. Canada had no direct ties to the Suez crisis, in terms of control or economic interest. However, Canadian Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, Lester B. Pearson, persuaded the UN General Assembly to send in the United Nations Emergency Force. Even though Lester B. Pearson dismayed the Commonwealth with his measures for peace, Canada was recognized for starting the first ever United Nations Peacekeeping mission.

Throughout Canadian history, a plenty of figures appeared to be significant for the time being. However, out from this great number of candidates that may qualify for the most important Canadian in history, William Lyon Mackenzie King prevails. First elected in 1921 after the Borden's Unionist government failed, Mackenzie King served as the longest serving Canadian head of government ever, holding the office of prime minister for 22 years. During his premiership, Canada developed from an attacked British colony to a major international player, building cornerstones for the golden age of Canadian diplomacy. His war policy made Canada an important contributor in the Allied forces during the World War II, giving supports for British and other

Paul Well’s book The Longer I’m Prime Minster shows that while Stephen Harper was an effective political leader in the beginning of his political career towards the latter part of his career Harper’s leadership began to falter. Harper was not a popular or likeable leader, but nevertheless during his time as leader of the Conservative Party and eventually when he was prime minister of Canada for ten years he displayed strong leadership skills. While he was prime minster Harper’s leadership was evident he overcome multiple minority governments, he was able to fight off a coalition between his opponents, he led Canada through the economic recession in 2008 and in 2011 after gaining valuable campaign experience he was able to lead the Conservative

Mackenzie King was willing to help the Canadian economy by providing more facilities, such as implementing policies like unemployment insurance in response to industrialization, economic distress, and changing social realities.People who didn’t have jobs before get the opportunity to insure their families future. Welfare state gave free healthcare to those who qualified for it. King gave benefits to the people for their life insuring their securities. For example, “He'd enacted measures such as the old-age pension, unemployment insurance, and family allowances that launched the welfare state”(One Man's Mackenzie King). People who didn’t have jobs before get the opportunity to insure their families future. As welfare provided free healthcare,

Politicians from all three prairie provinces continue to push for assimilation of Indians and Metis, believing it to be the “ultimate solution” to fadeout reserves that would see the treaty rights ended. This would also allow the federal government to discontinue its separate programs for status Indian people. Pierre Trudeau and his Liberal government released its “White Paper,” which proposed more complete integration of Indian people that would see an end to Indian status. Indian organizations counteract with their own “Red Paper,” which they wanted to maintain their relation with the federal government and the Queen. They also wanted to preserve the treaties and the Indian Act’s protection of the special status of Indian people. This frustrated

Mackenzie king was probably the most controversial and ambitious Prime Minister Canada had ever seen. The road for him in procuring and retaining the position of prime minister was not an easy one. His political career was fraught with dangerous obstacles such as his arch nemesis Arthur Meighen, the great depression, and the matter of conscription. Only with his determination and grit was he able to maintain office (although not consecutively), for almost 22 years, becoming Canada’s longest serving prime minister. Although he was an excellent politician he was not this way as a person. He was not below conspiring against his so called friends or even dishonoring their reputation or position. He was very subtle in the ways he obtained and

Strong leaders require the character trait of fairness as it shows equal treatment and respect of different opinions, and avoids many conflicts. Mackenzie King demonstrated fairness with the English and French speakers in Canada to unite Canada as one, and to avoid conflicts. For example, when King was first elected in 1921, his major goal was to unite all Canadians, mainly focusing on Protestants and Catholics. A month prior to being elected, King wrote in his diary; “A United Canada I made the first consideration…I want farmers, labour, soldiers, business and professions represented, and balance between Protestants, and Catholics.” This demonstrates the fairness Mackenzie King shows towards all labour workers and professions as well as both Anglophones and Francophones, even before getting elected. His “first consideration” is a “balance between Protestants and Catholics”, which displays the significance fairness has in King’s eyes, as it shows that King’s first priority is the fairness between the two groups. Specifically, Mackenzie King demonstrates his fairness with French and English during the Conscription Crisis of 1944. To obtain the support from the French, King had pledged “The present government believes that conscription of men for overseas service would not be necessary or an effective step. Let me say that so long

Tom Mulcair will try to make Canada a better country to live in and to make a better and sustainable life for adults, children and seniors. Not everyone is getting the job they want and Tom Mulcair will try his best to change that to full employment. Everyone will receive the same high standard of health care. Child poverty rate is only 1%, it will be 20%. Access to education is available to anyone who wants and needs it. NDP will fight for EPA (education protection act). National debt will be improved to a better standard. Tom Mulcair will help anyone he can. Every chance he gets he’ll try to bring people together. He will give kids a better experience. Tom Mulcair will provide seniors things they need. He is going to give middle-class families

From watching his dad become Prime Minister to becoming one himself, this fellow Canadian has impacted Canada the most!

William Lyon Mackenzie King was Canada's tenth prime minster from 1935-1948. He’s Canada’s longest serving prime minster and during his time as prime minster, he has made valuable contributions to help improve Canada. He steered Canada through industrialization, some of the Great Depression and the second world war. Although he lost the election to the conservatives in 1930 due to the reason that he was known to be indecisive and unable to deal with the depression; he proved to be more than what was said of him and made his way back to office in 1935. King was an effective leader, keeping his liberal party unified as he condemned Bennett for unfulfilled promises and rising unemployment and deficits. In 1935, he managed to clean up the mess

One of their key solutions was building the valcartier training camp. The camp had trained over 35 000 men. The camp offered training for a variety of “jobs” in the war to help british troops push the germans back. This was significant area of autonomy for canada because it pushed the canadians to show them as a big threat to canadians, rather than troops travelling overseas to france and britain to train, they have made a camp in canada that trained many soldiers before they were moved to france to join the war. The camp was built by the government but was an idea of Sir Sam Hughes, He was a controversial character throughout the war but with his idea for the camp he had changed many opinions of

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