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...always wanted Canada in. The Dominion, with its tie to the Crown in London, was once regarded as an outpost of the Old World. But now, Canada would be welcomed as another Anglo-Saxon voice at a predominantly Latin table. The constitution of the Pan American Union can easily be changed at the Bogota conference this year to admit the Dominion...
While the U.S. fought the fever of inflation (see NATIONAL AFFAIRS), Canada took its price-control pills and kept its economic temperature down. But the Dominion, afraid that controls, like drugs, might be habit-forming, recently took controls off a long list of consumer goods, from candy bars to Cadillacs. Last week it authorized a 10% boost in rents. The economic temperature rose. This week Canada was running a low fever...
Wait More, Make More. The Dominion's overall rent bill will not go up 10%, after all. Landlords are dissatisfied because they must offer a two-year lease to gain the extra revenue. Believing that all controls will be off in less than two years, many landlords are gambling on no increase now, bigger returns later...
Many retailers are determinedly selling old stock at ceiling prices, and a few are refusing to pay more for new stock. But no organized buyers' strike is evident. For the Dominion's wage earners, price increases already effective or foreseen mean another squeeze. Labor is restless because corporate profits are at an alltime high, taxes are still near the wartime level, and rising prices have offset the wage increases labor got last year...
...time. For six months they bickered and bantered on everything from relief to roads, from fish to politics. Then last month the Convention decided that it needed more information. It picked a six-man delegation to talk over with the British Government 1) a return to full self-governing dominion status, or 2) a retention of the present seven-man Commission of Government. Then it appointed a second delegation to find out if Ottawa would welcome Newfoundland as a tenth province...