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78 Pol. Sci. Q. 1 (1963)

handle is hein.journals/pclscceqry78 and id is 1 raw text is: Volume LXXVIII POLITICAL SCIENCE QUARTERLY CANADIAN POLITICS IN THE SIXTIES I CANADIAN elections have in recent years been a puz- zle to analysts trying to detect swings to the Left or to the Right in the voting habits of the Western democ- racies considered as a single political community. When in the late nineteen-fifties the Conservative party won two na- tional elections from the Liberals, who had been in office since 1935, some observers saw it as a Canadian reflection of a general swing to the Left in the Western world, while others interpreted it to be a belated manifestation of the turn to the Right in the early fifties that had elected Eisen- hower in the United States, Adenauer in West Germany and dethroned the postwar Labor government in Britain. Cana- dian commentators generally favored the first interpretation, if only because it was more flattering to see Canada as the leader of a larger trend instead of a laggard ingloriously catching up with the older nations of the West. Both views had some plausibility. The Conservatives were led by John Diefenbaker, a prairie radical who had al- ways been to the Left of his party, and the Liberals, espe- cially under the French-Canadian corporation lawyer, Louis St. Laurent, had begun to resemble a comfortable and arro- gant Establishment after more than twenty years in power. On the other hand, the Conservatives claimed, after all, to be conservatives with a small c and had always been the party most closely linked to the business interests of Montreal and Toronto. The alleged swing to the Left in the late fifties turned out March 1963 Number 1 1

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