While Smallwood impacted the people of Newfoundland and Labrador by signing Confederation and becoming part of Canada. King had made a more profound impact on people’s lives as he created old age pension in the 1920’s. Since Canada was at the time of the roaring ‘20s, he decided that the elderly needed to have money saved up for when they can work no longer. This made quite a profound impact on the elderly as they did not have to continue to work to have money in their pockets when they could not. This also aided them during the Great Depression. Shortly after, King created unemployment insurance in 1940 after the Great Depression in case an event as disastrous were to ever happen again. This had a very profound impact on people as it helped them in times of financial need. This helped families pay their bills and have food to eat. This also impacted people greatly as it gave a sense of security to those who had the insurance. King also had a profound impact on the war by not immediately sending Canada into war. Instead, he wanted people to produce crops. They provided rations for the soldiers to eat overseas while fighting. His actions to hold back from …show more content…
Mackenzie King made significant and important changes, impacted more lives, and used his talent of persuasiveness to become a more historically significant leader than Joey Smallwood. Mackenzie King was a strong leader through his natural qualities. He was calm, but most importantly, he was logical. He thought things out before executing. Canadians should look upon Mackenzie King as an example of how a leader should be. Canadians citizens should aspire to lead as Mackenzie King once