12 CANADA AND THE EMPIRE.

help he may be inclined to give us, compulsory
entanglement he fears and resists. Canada’s progress
 depends much on the large sums available
for expenditure on public works, and it is quite
foreign to her ideals to spend a large portion of
her income on armaments. The defence which
Great Britain has always afforded her has enabled
her to enjoy a civilisation of peace, safe-guarded
by the heavy military expenditure of the Mother
Country, and one of the strongest reasons that
Canadians have to fear closer union is their dread
of being involved in European warfare, and the
expenditure of time and money on bellicose preparations,

Many people think that Canada ought to contribute
 towards the expenses of Imperial defence.
This suggestion finds favour with but few in
Canada, She will never make this contribution so
long as she is excluded from a share in the management
 of the Army and Navy, and even then the
large and increasing foreign element would probably
be hostile to any such suggested expenditure of
Canadian revenues. So long as it entails no
curtailment of liberty the Imperial connection is
valued largely because it takes from the shoulders
of the Dominion the burden of self-defence.

CANADA AS NATION AND COLONY.

As we have already said, Canada’s development
into a corporate nation is of quite recent and
astonishingly rapid growth, But it is a healthy