i
f
THE
DAILY
NEWS
TO
THE
PEOPLE
OF
CANADA
I
WOULD
like
to
convey
to
the
people
of
Canada
the
viewpoint
of
Ilritish
Columbia
in
respect
of
our
economic
anil
political
relationship
to
Canada
as
a
whole,
with
suggestions
as
to
how
this
relationship
can
he
very
much
improved
not
only
for
the
good
of
Ilritish
Columbia,
but
for
the
welfare
of
Canada
generally.
I
think
it
advisable
to
do
so
because
I
believe
that
the
west
understands
the
cast
better
than
the
cast
understands
the
west.
It
is
natural
that
this
should
be
so,
as
a
considerable
ixirtion
of
our
popular
tion
originally
came
from
the
eastern
provinces
and
consequently
have
first-hand
knowledge
of
eastern
conditions.
Ilritish
Columbia
has
been
criticized
in
eastern
Canada
us
having
carried
out
extravagant
undertaking
and
as
having
moved
too
rapidly
in
social
and
welfare
legislation.
W
ith
regard
to
social
and
welfare
legisla-
tion,
we
Iiclicvc
that
the
benefits
which
are
being
received
more
than
outweigh
the
cost.
It
may
Ikj
well
to
note
that
other
provinces
and
the
Federal
Government
are
now
moving
along
similar
Icgtsluthc
linen.
So
far
as
extravagance
in
public
undertakings
is
concerned,
I
think
I
may
say
that
our
record
in
Hritiah
Columbia
will
compare
favourably
with
what
has
taken
place
in
Canada
as
a
whole,
although
this
is
not
necessarily
a
recommendation.
REDRESS
DEMANDED
.
.
.
Ever
since
Confederation
this
province
has
been
suffering
under
a
number
of
disabilities
of
which
our
present
position
is
the
logical
result.
To
remove
these
disabilities
we
intend
to
make
representations
to
the
next
Dominion-Provincial
conference,
which
we
assume
will
le
held
early
after
tjie
General
Election,
along
the
following
lines,
and
for
the
reasons
stated
herein
t
J.
That
there
should
lc
a
commission
to
consider
and
determine
the
claim
of
the
province
for
readjustment
of
its
relation
to
the
Federal
Government
in
respect
to
matters
arising
out
of
the
Terms
of
Union,
and
development
since
Confederation.
For
a
long
period
wc
have
made
representations
to
Ottawa
in
this
and
other
matters
concerning
the
Terms
of
Union
between
Canada
and
the
province,
and
during
the
past
vear
the
present
Federal
Government
recognized
the
principle
of
our
claim
and
agreed
to
an
additional
interim
payment
of
$750,000
on
account
of
annual
subsidy
for
the
year
ending
March
31st
last.
The
total
of
the
previous
subsidy
and
jer
capita
grant
was
873,000.
The
per
capita
grants
given
to
the
provinces
under
the
"British
North
America
Act"
were
in
lieu
of
customs
and
excise
receipts
which
were
surrendered
to
the
Federal
authority.
From
Confederation
to
March
31st,
193
1,
the
Dominion
has"
received
in
customs
receipts
in
British
Columbia
approximately
$317,000,000,
while
this
province
has
received
in
return
by
way
of
subsidy
a
total
of
some
$27,000,000.
GRANTS
INADEQUATE
.
.
.
Per
capita
grant
of
eighty
cents
per
head,
as
fixed
under
the
Terms
of
Union,
was
intended
to
make
ample
provision
for
the
cost
of
local
services
such
as
administration
of
justice,
education,
hospitals.
These
services
now
cost
the
province
eight
million
dollars
annually,
while
the
annual
per
capita
grant
received
from
the
Dominion
is
less
than
six
hundred
thousand
dollars.
J.
Redefinition
of
jurisdiction
over
sources
of
revenue
and
taxation.
There
must
be
allocated
to
the
province
sufficient
sources
of
revenue
to
enable
us
to
conduct
public
business
in
a
self-respecting
manner,
while
jurisdiction
must
Imj
placed
beyond
doubt
so
that
we
shall
not
be
in
the
precarious
positiqn
of
having
our
authority
disputed
in
the
Courts.
J.
There
must
lc
a
refunding
of
capital
obligation
to
secure
lower
interest
rates.
4.
.
Redefinition
as
to
exclusive
jurisdictions
in
all
matters
Mssible
in
order
to
prevent
conflict.
Agreement
also
as
to
co-operative
effort
in
all
matters
of
common
concern
to
the
provinces
and
the
Dominion,
particularly
in
the
marketing
of
products
and
upon
what
may
be
termed
"social
and
welfare
legislation".
J
NeeeWsary
capital
for
development
of
natural
resoiirrr
I
j
a"i
.public
works
should
be
made
available
tot?
the
provinces
at
lowest
jiossihle
cost.
I
f
j
U
(J.
Alsorptiou
of
the
Pacific
Great
Eastern
Railway
inp
i
the
Canadian
National
system.
PROBLEM
OF
P.G.E
'e
have
constantly
pressed
our
claims
for
the
taking
over
of
I.!.
81
1
1
-
'1
.,
a
.,
D
i
rauroau
oy
me
vanaman
national
nauway.
Some
thirty-four
railroads
have
been
taken
over
in
other
parts
of
Canada
and
amalgamated
with
the
Canadian
National
system.
More
tban
a
quarter
of
a
billion
dollars
has
been
spent
upon
canals
on
the
general
credit
of
Canada.
The
Hudson's
Hay
Railway
was
built
on
the
general
credit
of
Canada.
I
am
not
mentioning
these
things
by
way
of
criticism,
but
to
make
clear
our
own
position
in
respect
of
the
Pacific
Great
Eastern,
which
is
responsible
for
nearly
half
of
our
net
debt.
The
Pacific
Great
Eastern
Railway
had
an
agreement
with
the
Grand
Trunk
Pacific,
which
is
now
a
part
of
the
Canadian
National
system,
under
which
all
traffic
originating
in
eastern
Canada
destined
for
the
port
of
Vancouver
was
to
be
routed
over
the
Pacific
Great
Eastern.
With
the
amalgamation
of
the
Grand
Trunk
Pacific
and
the
Canadian
Northern
into
the
Canadian
National
Railway
the
benefit
of
this
agreement
was
lost
because
traffic
originating
on
the
Grand
Trunk
Pacific
destined
for
the
krt
of
Vancouver
is
now
routed
over
the
Canadian
Northern
section
of
the
Canadian
National
Railway.
The
Province
of
Ilritish
Columbia
had
nothing
to
do
with
the
amalgamation
of
the
Canadian
Northern
and
the
Grand
Trunk,
systems,
and
when
the
Grand
Trunk
Pacific
was
taken
hrto
the
Canadian
National
system
the
agreement
with
the
Pacific
Great
Eastern
Railway
should
have
been
taken
into
consideration
but
it
was
not.
AMALGAMATION
SOUGHT
.
.
.
Whatever
our
legal
claims
may
be,
there
is
no
doubt
that
we
have
an
unassailable
moral
claim
and
that
the
Pacific
Great
Eastern
should
le
taken
over
by
the
Canadian
National
Railway
and
amalgamated
with
that
system.
We
have
suggested
to
the
Dominion
Government
that
this
road
should
be
taken
over
at
its
replacement
value
which,
at
the
present
value
of
the
dollar,
would
be
less
than
half
of
what
It
has
cost
the
province.
I
am
glad
to
say
that,
due
to
mineral
development,
the
Pacific
threat
Eastern
Radway
is
upon
a
much
better
financial
basU
than
existed
some
years
ago.
This
development,
and
the
large
tracts
of
timber
tributary
to
the
line
and
capable
of
maintaining
pulp
ami
paper
industrial
endeavour
upon
a
large
scale
In
perjKrtuity,
assures
the
future
of
the
railroad.
TRADE
RESTRICTIONS
...
7.
Regional
tariff
adjustments
or
compensation
in
Ilea
thereof.
',
.
Adjustment
of
freight
rates
upon
a
basts
of
equality.
Adverse
freight
rate
and
tariff
retriction$
have
resulted
in
an
adrerse
Imlance
of
trade
as
oelirren
Ilritish
Columbia
and
eastern
Canada
of
more
than
fifty
million
dollar
annually.
This
very
arte
sum
lias
had
to
Ite
made
up
hy
famurabU
foreign
trade
Iwlances
and
hy
Itorrotrings,
All
thest
years
ir
have
Iteen
forcetl
to
buy
in
protected
dear
markets
and
to
sl
in
cheap
competitive
markets.
It
i
obvious
that
this
condition
cannot
continue
indefinitely,
and
let
me
here
say
that
notwithstanding
our
hra,vy
unfavourable
trade
balance
with
eastern
Canada,
liritlih
Columbia
has
more
than
aid
its
nv.it
way
in
the
Confederation
of
Canada
hy
way
of
direct
contribution
to
the
Dominion
treasury.
!)
A
permanent
tolicy
in
the
problem
of
unemployment.
Primary
resnsibility
for
unemployment
relief
rests
upon
the
Dominion.
A
national
council
should
be
set
up
with
which
the
provinces,
and
through
the
provinces,
the
muniripalitir
could
co-operate.
V
Perhaps
it
would
assist
our
argument
If
we
reflected
upon
just
what
has
leen
happening
in
Canada
as
a
whole.
LIVED
ON
CAPITA
I
7
Ever
since
Confederation
our
periods
of
prosperity
have
hen
cr.ods
of
heavy
capital
cxcnditiire.
Indeed
it
may
Iki
said
that
in
considerable
measure
we
have
leen
living
upon
capital,
billion
were
spent
upon
railroads
in
anticipation
f
increase
of
population
and
consequent
Increase
of
buslnesi.
Concurrently,
billions
.were
spent
upon
private
endeavour
while
there
was
a
steady
flow
of
immigration.
Some
two
billions
were
spent
upon
war.
Today
there
is
no
comparable
capital
expenditure.
Immigration
has
leen
greatly
restricted
and
external
trade
is
less
than
half
of
its
jeak.
Under
such
conditions,
need
we
be
surprised
that
we
have
unemployment?
Canada,
with
its
tremendous
area,
small
Miptilation
and
great
variety
of
natural
resources,
must
have
an
export
market
It
order
to
prosper.
Retaliatory
tariffs
imposed
by
the
United
States
hare
so
far
cut
into
British
Columbia's
timber
export
business
with
that
country,
formerly
our
lcst
customer,
that
we
hae
been
forced
to
look
for
new
outlets.
In
Great
Britain
we
have
found
timlier
and
Iumler
markets,
but
these
are
routtantlr
In
jeopardy
by
reason
of
keen
eonictition
from
the
Baltic
States
and
from
Soviet
Russia.
TARIFF
HANDICAPS
..
.
As
an
example
of
the
handicap
created
by
restrictive
tariffs
let
j
:
ine
cite
the
cac
of
halibut
fihrrmeii
on
the
Pacific
Coast.
I
American
fishing
Iioats
operating
In
the
same
water
it
j
f
Canadian
ltoat
receive
two
cents
per
mund
more
for
halibut
'
'
than
the
Canadian
boats.
'
J
his
province
simply
must
be
able
to
di-pe
of
its
prlmarr
Ihicts
timber,
metals,
fish,
fur
and
agriculture
in
order
in
prosper.
.
.
.
Tariff
adjustments,
however,
tale
time,
and
meantime
what
are
we
going
to
do
w
ith
the
problem
of
unemployment,
which
is
the
most
difficult
problem
immediately
facing
usT
British
Columbia
has
probably
leen
under
greater
handicap
with
recard
to
unemployment
than
any
other
province
In
th
Dominion,
by
reason
of
the
fact
that
nearly
one-third
of
the
slncle
fit
homeless
men
in
Canada
who
are
on
relief
migrated
to
British
Columbia.
Their
presence
here
undoubtedly
created
great
discord
and
unrest
in
the
minds
of
the
(Kipulation
generally.
This
has
!ccn
very
trying
to
industry
as
a
whole.
On
many
occusions
I
have
pointed
out
that
private
endeavour
has
done
as
much
as
it
can
in
the
rc-employment
of
labour,
and
I
have
frcque
ntly
suggested
to
the
Dominion
Government,
and
suggest
here,
that
in
order
to
meet
the
present
emergent
conditions
of
unemployment,
the
Dominion
Government
should
advance
money
to
the
various
provinces
to
undertake
essential
and
desirable
public
works
to
do
two
things,
namely,
to.
meet
a
growing
public
need
and
to
provide
employment
instead
of
the
present
demoralizing
method
of
relief.
PUBLIC
WORKS
NEEDED
...
There
are
innumerable
directions
for
profitable
public
endeavour.
In
our
own
province
money
is
badly
needed
for
roads,
bridges
and
mining
trails.
School
accommodation
has
not
kept
pare
with
school
imputation.
Hospitals
and
other
health
institutions
require
money,
our
eiial
institutions
likewise.
There
is
necessity
for
reforestation,
the
building
of
water-works
and
other
essential
municipal
undertakings.
These
art
all
of
a
necessary
character
so
far
as
this
province
Is
concerned,
while
money
could
profitably
lie
spent
in
other
directions
such
as
urban
beaul
ideation
uml
park
development.
I
have
suggested
to
the
Doiiiiujoii
Government
that
these
monies
should
lie
loaned
to
the
province
without
interest,
but
that
the
monies
should
lie
repaid
by
the
provinces
during
the
anticipated
lifetime
of
the
work.
This
suggestion
has
lieen
called
inflationary,
but
I
venture
to
think
that
as
we
have
Ihi
resources
and
the
manpower,
and
there
exists
the
need
for
the
development
of
these
resources
nnd
the
profitable
use
of
this
manpower,
that
it
is
not
an
insuperable
tak
to
bring
the
,
two
together,
and
it
seems
to
me
that
it
is
our
duly
to
do
so
In
order
to
preserve
the
manhood
of
our
country
and
the
Integrity
of
our
institutions.
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attend
the
contentions.
Mrs.
A.
A.
Connon
and
daughter-Yvonne,
are
expected
at
Franco
Lake
early
next
montli
to
pay
visit
with
Mrs.
Connon
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turns,
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enroute
to
the
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