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...High Commissioner is a diplomatic officer, represents Britain when she deals with her dominion as a colleague. The Governor General is an alter ego of the King, represents Britain when she deals with her dominion as a sovereign...
...Joseph Sirois of Quebec was a provincial notary and professor of Constitutional Law until 1937, when he was appointed a member of the Royal Commission on Dominion-Provincial Relations. A year later he succeeded Newton W. Rowell as chairman of the Commission, and for two years he labored tirelessly to produce what came to be known as the Rowell-Sirois Report - virtually a new constitution for Canada. The report was a plan to end the incoherence, irregularity and overlapping of powers which exist among the nine provinces of Canada, to centralize fiscal and social policies in the Dominion Government...
...reconstruction of Canada's Constitution and taxation system. Mitch was the first to reply. He read a brief which not only rejected the report but insulted its authors as well. To him the report was a well-cooked nefarious deal" to get provincial debts taken over by the Dominion Government to the profit of provincial bondholders-something the report guarded against by recommending a capital-gains...
Land. The Dominion has already-formed eight Army divisions-three more than in World War I. From a land of only 7,000,000 people some 100,000 Australians are now in the Middle East or in England. New troops are enlisted at the rate of 5,000 a month. A home-defense force of 250,000 is being conscripted. In the last year 80,000 new troops have been trained. Last week plans were announced for a costly program of mechanizing the whole Australian Army, both home-defense and expeditionary, with tanks and armored carriers to be built...
...After World War I the Dominion saved money by reducing armaments, relying on British sea power. It ignored Admiral Sir Reginald Henderson's plea for an independent Australian Fleet of 52 first-line ships by 1933. Today the chagrined Government finds itself with only two 10,000-ton cruisers, five lighter cruisers, eleven destroyers. New ship ways have been laid down, but not for several years is Australia's naval strength likely to give, say, a Japanese admiral cause for more than a slantwise smile...