Labels:chair | comic book | flag | person | sky | tie OCR: WARTIME PRIME MINISTER King was overwhelmingly confirmed as Canada wartime leader in the snap election of 1940 and commenced to centralize powers the economy for the war effort By 1940 as well Canada had become the base of the successful British Commonwealth Air Training Plan and had dispatched e force abroad The unexpected demands of the war threatened King earlier promise not to conscript soldiers for combat King held a plebiscite asking Canadians to release him from his pledge English Canada voted yes; Quebec said no Finally in November 1944 the government was forced to introduce conscription Amazingly, King hung onto almost allof his French-Canadian ministers and to his support in Quebec BIOGRAPHY 6 10 Ouebe
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