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• During the war, the economy was at full capacity. Industrial production and exports
were rising and Canada was providing its allies with military equipment. It also
increased food production for their troops.

War production (in millions of dollars):


Military 1939-1940 1941 1942 1943 1944
Equipment
Planes 45 110 232 361 110
Tanks -- 21 155 203 146
Rifles 1 20 162 213 156
Munitions 16 111 257 277 233
Ships 27 73 73 164 204




• Over 265,000 women were working by 1944






One of the candidates for the Quebec elections of 1939 said this


• Godbout was a Liberal, he wanted to change Quebec, to modernize it

Year Measure
1940 • Unemployment insurance program passed in Quebec
• Grant women’s right to vote in provincial elections
1943 • Compulsory school attendance until age 14
• Department of Industry and Commerce
1944 • Adoption of the Labour Relations Act (forces employers to negotiate
with workers in Unions)
• Creation of Hydro-Quebec
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