Canada and the Cost of World War II: The International Operations of Canada's Department of Finance, 1939-1947
May 2005 · Carleton Library Series Book 204 · McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
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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.
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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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