Canada in the Great Depression

The whole world was affected tremendously by the great depression, but Canada was one of the hardest hit nations. Exports being a large part of Canada's income, it was because of the damage done to world trade that Canada suffered so greatly. At the height of the depression, in 1933, 30% of the labour force was unemployed and 20% of all Canadians were dependent on government relief for survival. Did the government do enough to fix this? Most …

…were not much different from those of Canada at that time, but the U.S. government tried to minimize the poverty in the great depression while the Canadian government barely did anything to stop the problem. The people at the time were very unsatisfied by what their government was doing to help them. There would have been much better results if the government had chosen to try and help the people through a difficult time.