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Some provinces struggled financially; only the federal government appeared to have the resources to deal with the burden of welfare and reconstruction. Much of his work had been done.

An election was due in 1945, and King’s Liberals were beset by an assortment of Quebec nationalists, Ontario conscriptionists, and prairie socialists. King and his colleagues fervently hoped it would never come.In Ottawa, St-Laurent was now accepted as King’s Quebec lieutenant. After returning home, he led the Liberals to triumphant re-election in August.St-Laurent was 71, and he began to consider whether it might not soon be time to step down. On the Cold War, there was little to be done: its development was beyond Canada’s control and in any case Canadians had no hesitation in taking the side of the West. Jean-Baptiste-Moïse St-Laurent, the first family member in 150 years to attend school, abandoned farming for commerce. The government had had its way, but at some cost to its reputation. Eden tried to rationalize Britain’s foreign commitments, to bring them more into balance with his country’s reduced economic resources. During these two years he also carried out his duties as minister of justice, including the appointment of judges and advice to his colleagues on the constitutionality of proposed legislation.St-Laurent took a broad view of the federal spending power, which he held could justify such programs as family allowances; the legislation for family allowances emanated from his department in 1944.

It and the surrounding township of Compton would become majority French at some point between 1901 and 1911. St-Laurent served as opposition leader for the fall session. He brushed aside warnings that these proposals would “precipitate acrimonious disputes with the provinces,” though it was over revenue-sharing differences that the program would run aground. His wife died in 1966. St-Laurent spoke effectively on behalf of the government’s conscription policy in the House of Commons on 16 June, arguing against the contention of Quebec nationalists that Canada was at war merely in the service of the British empire. St-Laurent was the logical leader and future prime minister, and King asked him to accept the possibility. To do the job, Howe had helped design a private company, Trans-Canada Pipe Lines Limited, incorporated in 1951. As the prime minister travelled through English Canada, hecklers yelled out “supermen,” referring not just to his remark about the supermen of Europe but sarcastically to the Liberals as the supermen of Canada. Such public projects as the Trans-Canada Highway, the Distant Early Warning Line for air defence, and the Canso Causeway in Nova Scotia drew favourable attention, and Howe was concentrating on a project designed to bring natural gas through a transcontinental pipeline from Alberta to central Canada. In 1935 the Conservatives under Richard Bedford The crisis, economic and constitutional, endured and King’s next expedient, in 1937, was to appoint a royal commission on dominion-provincial relations chaired by Ontario’s chief justice, Newton Wesley King and his Quebec lieutenant, justice minister Ernest On 4 December, King telephoned St-Laurent, asking him to be in Ottawa the next day. Conscription for overseas service was now legally possible, but it need not be implemented until the military ran short of men. The contest was Canada’s first televised election.

The dominion was engaged in its own interests, not those of Britain, and he urged English Canadians to accept French Canadians “as full partners and full citizens.” King warmly shook St-Laurent’s hand on the conclusion of the speech, and he recorded in his diary that the occasion was of great symbolic significance. The Canadian and American governments concluded an agreement to build a canal and power project, the St Lawrence Seaway, which contributed to the country’s apparently unending prosperity.

It was the reaction of the United States that mattered most. St-Laurent, who believed he would be abandoning his staff and another minister, refused. He immediately prepared, with the French, to invade Egypt. He took advantage of an invitation to inaugurate a lecture series at the University of Toronto in January 1947 (the first Gray Lecture) to give what was probably his most notable speech.

The cabinet brushed aside fears of conscription, and authorized a larger army, an expeditionary force to Korea, a permanent garrison in Europe, and $5 billion for a rearmament program.

A visit intended to bridge differences may not have done the trick, but he did not notice.