AH Challenge: Make Adrien Arcand Fascist Prime Minister of Canada

Your challenge, should you accept it, is to make Adrien Arcand the Prime Minister of Canada, with a POD no earlier than October 29th,1929. He must be Prime Minister no later then September 1st, 1939. He must do so as the head of a Fascist poltical party, though it doesn't have to be one that existed in OTL.
 
Your challenge, should you accept it, is to make Adrien Arcand the Prime Minister of Canada, with a POD no earlier than October 29th,1929. He must be Prime Minister no later then September 1st, 1939. He must do so as the head of a Fascist poltical party, though it doesn't have to be one that existed in OTL.

After 1929 is hard. Very hard. (A POD in the last eight months of WWI would make this much easier. Especially as the Germans very nearly won the war in the spring of 1918... Think four years of bloodshed and ~60,000 dead (Canada's OTL WWI losses), with nothing to show for it, not even the hollow victory of OTL. What would that do the Dominion?) Maybe Mackenzie-King wins a minority in 1930? Or he draws Parliament out to the limit and loses even worse in 1931? Or something to make Depression-era Canada go from bad to worse?

One thing that I can't see is a Fascist or quasi-fascist Canada without either a Fascist US or a Fascist Britain, and preferably both.
 
You would have to make the Great Depression more violent, I would think - take incidents like the Estevan riot and the On-to-Ottawa trek and have much more bloodshed that is seen to be inspired by Communists. Have that lead to a widespread fear of imminent Communist insurrection that the current gov't is incapable of meeting with sufficient force. That gives Arcand the opening to say that only his movement is capable of dealing with the Communists, which leads to electoral success (not necessarily a majority, but a large enough minority that governing without him as PM in time of crisis is implausible - a splintering of the Liberal party would definitely help here).
 
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