This exercise requires students to examine the ways that political parties responded to the Great Depression in Canada. The assignment examines the Liberals, Conservatives, and Cooperative Commonwealth Federation at the federal level, with special attention given to the changing philosophies of Mackenzie King and R.B. Bennett. At the provincial level, students examine the policies of Maurice Duplessis' Union Nationale (Quebec), William Aberhart's Social Credit (Alberta), and Mitchell Hepburn's