About John Bracken: John Bracken was an agronomist, the 11th Premier of Manitoba (1922–1943) and leader of the Progressive Conservative Party of Canada (1942–1948).
Two thirds of a century ago, we were given a national policy. It was made to fit the conditions of the day.
It is our task to provide policies suited to the different situations of today.
If Sir John A. MacDonald or any other leader of that day were here now, he would have a different program from that of sixty years ago. He sought to give his people policies suited to the time in which he lived.
