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...part of the net tax exemptions which they now receive for each child. The Government hopes to pick up $50,000,000 in increased tax revenue, hold the net cost of the plan to $200,000,000 a year. Even so this would be a whopping addition to the Dominion budget...
Unlike the U.S., Canada solved its service-vote problem with no wrangling. In the next dominion election all servicemen (home and overseas) will get simple "I Vote for " ballots. Special election officers will count the votes, from overseas will cable results home. To give everyone a chance, service voting will last twelve days...
...dissenters made futile noises. Then the House of Commons voted a new Mutual Aid Bill, Canadian counterpart of U.S. Lend-Lease. In the coming fiscal year, the Dominion will spend $800,000,000 in Canada to provide material assistance to her Allies...
Commonwealth & Empire. The Dominion Premiers stood "in firm array" after their recent conference (TIME, May 1 et seq.). Said Churchill: "We have advanced from vague generalities to more precise points of agreement, and we are in a position to carry on discussions with other countries within limits which we have imposed upon ourselves...
...those limits, imposed by a strong sense of Dominion independence, seemed unduly narrow to the Prime Minister, he did not seem to worry unduly. In fact, referring to Commonwealth & Empire, he got off a fine Churchillian quip: "The word Empire is permitted to be used, which may be a great shock to a certain strain of intellectual opinion...