Hughes and the Prime Minister

Prime Minister Robert Borden

    Prime minister Robert Borden was the eighth Prime Minister of
Canada and had close relations to Sam Hughes. After Borden fell from power, Hughes offered him a seat in the house of commons, possibly as a gamble to have close and good relations to the Prime Minister should Borden ever rise to power again, and soon he rose back to being at the Prime Ministers desk with Hughes a close colleague.
    After appointing Hughes as the new minister of militia, WW1 started and Borden quickly viewed Hughes as more of a liability than an asset from his poor decision making and bad planning leading to controversies such as the Ross Rifle and the Shell Committee that cost thousands of lives, and started to restrict his power. Their relationship began to degrade and soon Hughes saw borden as an enemy when Borden ordered him to resign from being the minister of militia after Hughes, against orders, set up a sub militia council in europe to regain the control over the militia witch Borden had taken.