Today in Canada’s Political History: Leader of the Opposition Mackenzie King privately celebrates Arthur Meighen becoming PM
Canada had a new Prime Minister in July 1920 by the name of Arthur Meighen. It would fall to him to attempt to breathe new life into the decaying Union government Robert Borden had left him. In the privacy of his diary, Liberal leader Mackenzie King pronounced himself a happy man at the opponent he would soon face on the hustings.
“I could not help exclaiming ‘God for him’ when I read of Meighen having won out, and achieved his ambition, immediately I added, walking up and down with feelings of satisfaction, ‘It is too good to be true,’” King wrote on this date in 1920. “Meighen is a Tory through and through, the very antithesis of myself in thought and feeling on political matters. I can fight him naturally; the issues will become clear and distinct.
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