Montreal, June 3.
summer season "is almost always "a dull one in' Canadian political affairs, as the Pederal Parlia~ ment rarely sits through the warm months at Oltawa, This year the majority of the leaders are abroad, either travelling for pleasure, or taking part in the Imperial Conference. Political interest has shifted to. the provincial scene, where two legisla~ tures have just been dissolved, with elections due in the near future.
In British Columbia the Liberals have been in power since 1933, when they won one of the strangest elec tong "in the history" of "Canadian politics. Candidates from about even parties presented themselves to the electorate, with Liberals, Conservatives and 'C.C.F. groups contesting. practically every seat. The Liberals. secured a safe majority, despite the fact that the C.C.F. party polled nearly one-third of the total vote. Under Premier Pattullo they have managed to hold the conddence fof the people fairly well: their task has "not been unduly dimeult, general conditions have been steadily Improving, with British Columbia leading the rest of Canada in a number of economic factors.
"Towards the close of Is term the hi Pattullo government introduced a bill for health Insurance which, it was believed, would go far to win the support of those electors who. had favoured the more socialist partie Strenuous opposition to the bill was made by the physicians of the province, who felt that In. operation the new law would be unfair to them. Mainly as a result of this opposition the government decided to hold referendum on the measure in connection with the coming election
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