How Did The Great Depression Affect Canada

The Great Depression may lead into some bad outcomes, and that affected society, the economy, and the political parties. First it began at it’s economy where there was a large decrease in the economy by “The widespread poverty and suffering during the 1930s—the result of unemployment, drought and lack of a social safety net—transformed social welfare in Canada.”(The Great, 2008) This increase of poverty and unemployment resulted to difficult times for the people either the middle class which barely survived to the millionaires which went broke fast. The Great Depression affected the economy which down spiralled into mayhem a cost the country a lot of money. The poverty increased continuously as more and more individuals were out of jobs. This lack of employment cause society to gain a hatred and wanted to either place blame or put their stress and anxiety onto …show more content…
Some of these groups were sent back like the“During that time European Jews fleeing Nazi Germany were denied a sanctuary in Canada (see Refugees). The number of Canada's deportations, however, rose from fewer than 2,000 in 1929 to more than 7,600 just three years later. Almost 30,000 immigrants were forcibly returned to their countries of origin over the course of the decade, primarily because of illness or unemployment.”(Struthers, James) This resulted into unfair biases of immigrant that were once welcomed with open arms and are now kicked out for not being the dominate race, british people. This may have caused some conflict as many were out of job and into poverty revisiting the circle again. As poverty rose people looked up to the controllers to this country to decide how to combat this. Many political parties rose to power as they either had someone to blame or a solution to this