Speech of the Hon. A. T. Galt, Minister of Finance of Canada, on Introducing the Budget of 1862: Together With Statistical and Financial Statements (Classic Reprint) - Softcover

Alexander Tilloch Galt

Softcover

ISBN 10: 026500537X ISBN 13: 9780265005378

Publisher: Forgotten Books, 2018

Synopsis

Excerpt from Speech of the Hon. A. T. Galt, Minister of Finance of Canada, on Introducing the Budget of 1862: Together With Statistical and Financial Statements

Hon. Mn. Galt rose and said, - Mr. Chairman, I shall have, on this occasion, more than at any similar previous time, to crave the indulgence of the Committee for perhaps a somewhat longer period than is usually occupied in making financial statements. The circumstances in which we now find ourselves placed are widely different from what they have been before, and I am sure the best attention and consideration of the Committee will be given to the facts which I shall have the honor to la)r before them. I trust, Sir, it may be in my power fully and clearly to place before the Committee the views of the Government, having reference to the finances of the country and the measures which we deem necessary to put those finances on a sound and proper footing. I hepe if I fail in setting forth to the Committee the full sense which we entertain, as well of our own responsibility as of the importance of the steps necessary to be taken, that the blame will be imputed to myself, without injury to the great interests involved. (hear.) When, Sir, I last had the honor of addressing the Committee of Supply, at the beginning of the year 1861, the progress of the country had been most satisfactory. Commerce had revived, we had been blessed with a most abundant harvest, and our people were happy, industrious and contented. Now, we find an entirely different state of things. Shortly after we separated last year the unfortunate fratricidal war in the United States broke out, and it has been found to affect our interests almost as disastrously as their own. The great convulsion which now shakes the United States from the centre, we feel in Canada too.

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About this edition

• Publisher: Forgotten Books
• Publication date: 2018
• ISBN 10: 026500537X
• ISBN 13: 9780265005378
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 52