One editorialist at an Ontario newspaper looked forward to what he/she expected would be Bennett’s firm leadership style as he and his party faced off against the ever-wily Prime Minister Mackenzie King and his Liberals.

“One thing may be taken for granted when Parliament convenes and the Conservative Party finds Itself for the first time under the leadership of Hon. R. B. Bennett, K.C.; and that is that there will be no ‘Board of Strategy’ or "Kitchen Cabinet’ in evidence, seeking to ‘help’ Mr. Bennett out.

The plain fact of the matter, unless we very much miss our guess, is that Mr. Bennett will be his own leader and that those members of the Old Guard who may seek to help him in the leading will find themselves, as the late Ex-President Grover Cleveland would say, relegated to a position of innocuous desuetude. To be sure, Mr. Bennett will undoubtedly be glad to listen to all advice and suggestions offered to him, whether from members of the former Kitchen Cabinet or the late Board of Strategy but that undoubtedly will be as far as it will go. When it comes to the final decision, the new leader will do the deciding, since he is his own man and has a mind of his own.

When one recalls the shocking blunders of the old Conservative Board of Strategy in the last session of Parliament there need be little occasion for surprise at Mr. Bennett's course. Just as a well-known politician once said, ‘The way to resolve is to resolve,’ so the way to lead is to lead.”

For good or ill, Bennett did indeed display this style of one-person leadership when he became Prime Minister two-years later.