Even before the Russian revolution and the first Red Scare (1917-20), Canada’s Liberal and Conservative elites targeted leftwing activists and unions that might threaten corporate power. Besides being rabidly anticommunist, major Canadian institutions (political, academic, religious, economic and media) were riddled with violently racist, classist and antisemitic imperialists. This was normal for such ideologues who were sympathetic to the rise of fascism, and therefore happily supported it.

After losing his seat in 1911, King did Liberal Party lecture tours. Then, when WWI broke out, he avoided the draft by moving to the US and working for J.D.Rockefeller Jr. (1914-18). (JDR Sr., an oil tycoon/robber baron, was America’s first billionaire.) As the Rockefeller’s labour consultant, King was paid the 2020 equivalent of $405,000 per year. King’s job was to helped JDR Jr. deal with the 1914 strikes in which 75 were murdered. In the Ludlow Massacre alone, Rockefeller’s thugs used machine guns to kill 21 strikers and family members. After leaving the company, King guided labour relations for other huge US firms, earning the 2020 equivalent of $33,000 a week.

Blind Faith in Crystal Balls and Hitler

King was a gullible and naive simpleton. This is clear not only from his trust in spiritualists, but from his faith in the Rockefellers, Mussolini, Hitler and other fascists.

King’s use of ouija boards, crystal balls, palm readers and spiritualist mediums indicate his dubious mental capacities. Between 1920 and 1950, King hosted many seances and believed he was talking with his dead siblings, father, grandfather and mother. (One of King's spiritualist mediums, Etta Wriedt, came to his summer estate at Kingsmere, Quebec, to lead seances in the 1930s.  She had been exposed as a fraud in 1920.2) King also suffered from the foolish delusion that he was conferring with the ghosts of Leonardo da Vinci and such deceased leaders as Wilfrid Laurier, Teddy Roosevelt, Lord Earl Grey, Benjamin Disraeli and William Gladstone. That King also communicated with three of his dead dogs, speaks volumes about the sanity of Canada’s longest serving prime minister.

King’s Man Date with der Führer

King was overjoyed to meet Hitler, calling it "the day for which I was born." His diary describes how he praised Hitler on "the constructive work of his regime, and said that I hoped that that work might continue. That nothing would be permitted to destroy that work." King said he also told the Führer that his great work "was bound to be followed in other countries to the great advantage of mankind." King congratulated Hitler for "what he was seeking to do for the greater good of those in humble walks of life" and said he "was strongly in accord with it, and thought it would work." Saying Hitler "would be remembered" for his good work, King told him "to let nothing destroy that work." King concluded his naive praise by saying "I wished him well in his efforts to help mankind."

King was easily seduced by elitist trappings of power and dazzled by conspicuous displays of wealth. After being greeted by a "guard of honour" at Hindenburg Palace and then "conducted upstairs, preceded formally by attendants" "attired in court dress," King was awed by Hitler’s entourage of diplomats, and those in Nazi military uniforms and "Court dress."

King was also impressed by Hitler’s love of mountains, because "he needs the quiet and nature to help him to think out the problems of his country. It seems to me that in this he was eminently wise."

King took Hitler at face value and read much into his "smooth skin" and facial expressions. Saying the Nazi leader "smiled very pleasantly," he remarked on the "appealing and affectionate look in his eyes." Hitler’s "eyes impressed me most of all," cooed King. "There was a liquid quality about them which indicate keen perception and profound sympathy." Hitler, King said confidently, "is really one who truly loves his fellow men, and his country, and would make any sacrifice for their good."

In March 1938, King told his diary: "I believe ... the world will yet come to see a very great man-mystic in Hitler" and he "will rank some day with Joan of Arc among the deliverers of his people, and if he is only careful may yet be the deliverer of Europe." Besides seeing Hitler as the potential saviour of Europe, King also saw Hitler as his own personal "guide." Hitler, King said, was

In 1937, King told Hitler that he "could do more than any other man living to help your own and other countries along the path of peace and progress." In another doting letter to Hitler (Feb. 1, 1939), King told the Führer that he wanted

After WWII, King began a tsunami of immigration that welcomed some 150,000 antiSoviet East Europeans. Countless Nazi collaborators thus became new Canadians, including thousands of veterans of Waffen SS divisions that had been created, armed, funded, trained and led by Nazi Germany.