William Lyon Mackenzie King

Mackenzie King pondering resigning as Liberal leader. Circa 1929.

World War II

King was an excellent judge of character, and after having met with Adolf Hitler, immediately saw that he was "a reasonable man who cared for his fellow man, working to improve his country in the midst of the Depression." He believed Hitler "might come to be thought of as one of the saviours of the world". Nevertheless Britain did not see it this way. When she declared war after Hitler's invasion of Poland in 1939, King threw a tantrum for several days before Canada joined in. Though, he always remained firm in his position that Eva Braun was "totally bangable".

King's policy on conscription was "conscription if necessary, but not necessarily conscription". He later admitted to having no idea what that meant really, although he did clarify that Japanese Canadians were to be exempt, and kindly moved them from the west coast away from danger into internment camps in the east.

King also shocked the Nation when he made the claim that, "This whole fascism thing seems like an interesting strategy...lets wait and see if it pays off for them in the end". He later made similar remarks regarding communism, which comforted Canadians, causing them to realize that he simply had very little grasp on the actual situation of the war, and as usual, was pretty harmless, just weird.

King-Bing affair

While Japanese Canadians were supposed to have been comfortably interned out of harm's reach, the scandal broke that King was having an affair with one Mayuko Kuan Bing who had remained in Ottawa as an intern of an entirely different kind, which he initially vociferously denied, but gave up this denial when he realized that, as with most occurances in Canadian history, hardly anyone cared anyway.

Mackenzie King a week before stepping down in 1948.

Post-war

After the war, King helped found the United Nations under the ownership of Beable von Polasm. In 1948, he was paroled from Parliament.

He died on July 22, 1950, at his home near Ottawa, and was entombed inside the Royal Austrian Mint so that his image could be used on the Australian $50 bill.

On his death bed his final words were as follows,

"I only wish that someday, the highschool I attended will erect a statue of me on their front lawn.....and that those damn degenerate kids don't stick half finished ciggarettes and/or joints in my mouth, though that would be extremely amusing......"

and,

"Arg! I really wanted to see where that whole Iron-curtain/Eastern Block thing was going!"

Afterlife

The spirit of Mackenzie King has been channeled by various dogs and cats, providing inspiration to geniuses such as Leonardo da Vinci, Louis Pasteur, and most recently Teo Kuan Bing.

King also had an obsession with is dead Mother, going so far as to including a shrine to her in his Ottawa estate, and frequently attempted to contact her from the "other side". Most historians describe this as quasey creepy, but given the level of batfuck-insanity evident in generally everything King did, they pass it off as "not really anything people didn't already assume was going on". The Canadian people of the time considered it a loveable quirk from a man who was seen as "entertainingly bizarre".

Preceded by: Arthur Meighen

Prime Minister of Canada 1921-1948

Succeeded by: Louis St. Laurent

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