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Last week, Miner Cameron was back with the Dominion Coal Co., Ltd., at New Waterford, N.S. He explained...
There is one catch: the bill will not become effective until the nine provinces, which may add pension payments of their own, work out the details with the Dominion. Then the new legislation will cost Canadian taxpayers an estimated $65,500,000 a year in Dominion taxes (a $20,000,000 increase). But in the House, the only real opposition had come from members who thought that the Government was too stingy...
...Toronto Globe & Mail called Drew's plan "breathtaking," went on to wave a Tory finger underneath the Dominion Government's nose: "In a few short weeks the Ontario Government has cut its way through the morass of inertia and red tape that has surrounded the immigration problem of Ottawa for so long...
British repressive measures after World War I convinced Gandhi that the British would never willingly give India dominion status. So he organized satyagraha. This first campaign came near to unseating the British Raj. "Gandhi's was the most colossal experiment in world history, and it came within an inch of succeeding," admitted the British governor of Bombay...
Pakistan would begin its career with no cotton mills, jute mills, iron or steel works,† copper or iron mines. Jinnah hoped to compensate for this weakness with foreign support, might keep Pakistan a British dominion even if Hindu India declared complete independence...