Robert Borden Conservatives and Prime Minister Robert Borden

federal election campaign: Borden won the October 1911 election on the strength of his xenophobic indulgences betrayed by a telling slogan: "A White Canada." The 1911 federal election campaign played on voters' phobias and patriotism, according to Huffington Post Canada. Robert Borden Conservatives were happy to harvest the fear of foreigners on the road to their electoral victory. As Canadians look down upon the severe tone of the Republican primary season, they might console themselves by saying: "We would never resort to that kind of hateful dialogue, and it would never work here -- in the multicultural haven that is Canada." Prime Minister Robert Borden might prove them wrong. No to 'free trade'Voters viewed with trepidation the proposed free trade deal with outsiders -- those south of the 49th parallel. Arthur Hawkes was in charge of the special appeal to British-born Canadians, 250,000 of whom had immigrated to Canada in the three years leading up to the election. In Toronto, the Canadian-British Association lobby group was formed to spread its malicious message of anti-Americanism across Ontario in the months preceding the election. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.