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Canada and the Cost of World War II

The International Operations of Canada's Department of Finance, 1939-1947

by (author) Robert Bryce

Publisher
McGill-Queen's University Press
Initial publish date
May 2005
Category
Public Finance
  • eBook

    ISBN
    9780773573055
    Publish Date
    May 2005
    List Price
    $100.00
  • Hardback

    ISBN
    9780773529380
    Publish Date
    May 2005
    List Price
    $125.00

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Bryce chronicles in splendid detail how the tiny and overburdened department in Ottawa worked behind the scenes to deal with the critical public policy challenges that accompanied World War II and postwar reconstruction. Canada's financial aid made it possible for Britain to wage an effective war and then deal with the destruction it wrought. Bryce details how Canada's Department of Finance can also be credited with overcoming some of Britain's most pressing balance-of-payments problems after the war.

About the author

Robert B. Bryce was deputy minister in the Department of Finance and chairman of the Royal Commission on Corporate Concentration.Matthew J. Bellamy is an instructor in economics and history at Carleton University and the author of Profiting the Crown: C

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