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...Britain, was now Canada's best customer ($1,174,000,000). But Canada's exports to Britain still ran a very close second ($1,157,000,000). A large share of these exports were outright gifts from the Dominion, financed by the Canadian Parliament's $800,000,000 appropriation for Mutual Aid-the Canadian version of Lend-Lease...
...looking back over this record at year's end, Ottawa bigwigs were, as usual, issuing hopeful statements. But Canadians knew that, more than for most countries, this war-swollen trade was the biggest question mark in Canada's future. The Dominion's 12,000,000 people could never consume all that her fisheries, farms and machines could produce...
...best customers-the U.S. and Britain. A dollar country, Canada needed dollars. But her best chance for postwar sales seemed to be in countries where the pound governed the flow of trade. One solution might be for Canadians to try to divide their trade into tight compartments. The Dominion could thus reduce her sterling balances by buying more from Britain, try to build up her dollars by selling to the U.S. and competing with the U.S. in Latin America. But not many Canadians wanted this solution...
...Canada's first socialist government: it must make a substantial show of bettering the lot of Saskatchewan's farmers-and Saskatchewan is largely an agricultural area. The alternative: yeasty, ambitious C.C.F. will never swing the farm vote in other provinces, will remain a minority party in Dominion politics. Last week Saskatchewan's Government turned up with new proof that it understands the challenge and is going out to meet...
...British export goods. Before they invested in Saskatchewan, said Minister McIntosh, the British cooperatives wanted to know whether postwar Canada was prepared to lower its tariffs on British goods. Patently that was a concession that neither the C.C.F. nor Saskatchewan could make: it was a matter, of overall Dominion politics...