Canada And the Canadian Question
Canada And the Canadian Question
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Government by subsidies and grants cannot be economic- ally carried on. Nor is the Canadian form of government in itself simple or inexpensive. Eight Constitutional Monarchies with as many Parliaments, four of the Parliaments having two Chambers, and the members of all being paid, are a con- siderable burden for a population under five millions and by no means wealthy. It is commonly said in Canada that we are "too much governed/' Political architects in framing their Constitutions should have ...some regard for the cost of working among people whose wealth is not boundless. The work done by the eight Parliaments in the way of real legis- lation, apart from mere faction-fighting, would, if summed up, ix FRUITS OF CONFEDERATION 235 cut a poor figure in comparison with the expense. The eight Constitutional Monarchies have cost fully four millions of dollars since Confederation without doing any work at all.
Hence, while the American debt, to which everybody pointed as a bugbear at the time of Confederation, has, notwith- standing the enormous squandering of public money by the tariff men, been rapidly decreasing, the Canadian debt has been almost as rapidly increasing, and now amounts to two hundred and forty millions net, or $50 per head of the whole population.
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To quickly assess the difficulty of the text, read a short excerpt:
Government by subsidies and grants cannot be economic- ally carried on. Nor is the Canadian form of government in itself simple or inexpensive. Eight Constitutional Monarchies with as many Parliaments, four of the Parliaments having two Chambers, and the members of all being paid, are a con- siderable burden for a population under five millions and by no means wealthy. It is commonly said in Canada that we are "too much governed/' Political architects in framing their Constitutions should have ...some regard for the cost of working among people whose wealth is not boundless. The work done by the eight Parliaments in the way of real legis- lation, apart from mere faction-fighting, would, if summed up, ix FRUITS OF CONFEDERATION 235 cut a poor figure in comparison with the expense. The eight Constitutional Monarchies have cost fully four millions of dollars since Confederation without doing any work at all.
Hence, while the American debt, to which everybody pointed as a bugbear at the time of Confederation, has, notwith- standing the enormous squandering of public money by the tariff men, been rapidly decreasing, the Canadian debt has been almost as rapidly increasing, and now amounts to two hundred and forty millions net, or $50 per head of the whole population.
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