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or should ask help from the Imperial Government for
such enterprises.

(C.)—Without giving reasons, pros. and cons., I may
answer briefly thus: —
(a) State-aided emigration can be of great service
to the community and to the individual. It is a
danger as well as an opportunity to benefit.
(b) Subsidies in all its aspects I consider a very
dangerous policy, to be avoided whenever possible.
(c) Loans to aid much needed developments I
approve ; subsidising should take this form.
(D.)—Any or either may be good or bad—it depends
wholly on the circumstances. Loans by Imperial
Government to Canada for any of these purposes are
quite unnecessary, and the unnecessary is usually the
injurious. Canada is well able to provide for Canada
anything Canada thinks she wants.

{(D1.)—I am decidedly against State-aided immigration
 and in favour of allowing emigration to take
its natural course. Our Government has done no
good by aiding emigration to our North-West, As a
general rule I am against the subsidising system, and
50 I find are those on whose opinions in this colony I
most rely.

(D3.)—(a) (b) Good in all cases where Great
Britain can see instant or approximate return for her
expenditure, as in any arrangement between equals;
not good where it is only intended to place us under
a presumptive obligation.

(c) Loans to aid development of railways (no need),
waterways, &amp;c. (no), to improve and cheapen means
of transport to the coast (no), by the Imperial Government
 (our business).

(D 4.)—Canada requires no assistance in developing
her internal systems of transportation : but the Motherland
 and Canada might co-operate to their mutual