The Dominion Finances and the National Policy: A Speech Delivered During the Debate on the Budget in the House of Commons on the Evening of the 30th March 1883 (Classic Reprint)

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Mr. White (cardwell) - Mr. Speaker, the hon. Gentleman who has just taken his seat has devoted a large portion of the time which he has occupied in replying to the budget speeches of last year and of the year before. Sir, those speeches were before the people of the country in June last; the replies of these hon. Gentlemen to those budget speeches were also before the country, and in the face of arguments used by hon. Gentleman Oppo site, the people of Canada - not the people of Ontario alone, but the people of the whole Dominion - returned to this House a major ity to support the hon. Gentlemen who now occupy the Treasury Benches. The hon. Member has been good enough to say that we should not boast of that triumph because of the fact that it was achieved, as he alleges, in some parts at any rate, by what was com mouly known as the gerrymandering Act. I did not understand the hon. Minister of Finance when he referred to the fact that eight ex-ministers who were in office during the five years that the opposite party were in power, had fallen victims to the popular indignation at the last election - I say I did not understand him to refer to the triumph in the Province of Ontario alone. The fact is that of those eight hon. Gentlemen only one can, with any shew of reason or truth, be said to have fallen a victim to what is called the gerrymandering Act.

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