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THE TUNNEL QUESTION
Able and Convincing Speech by Mr, John McLean, M.P,
What the Island Contributes to Canada,
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THE RELATIVE AMOUNT
contributed to the general revenue aud | raised by the Island has been brought up in connection with this question of a tun-| nel. The people of the Island have7not' complained that they are paying more than) their share to the revenue. That is not why I point out that the Island contri- butes as much per head as do the other provinces, but whenever this question is brought up and it is alleged that the Island ig a beggar and contributes $600,000 less to the Dominion treasury than she re-! ceives, it is desirable to point out that this is not only wildly inaccurate, but that if true it would be no reason why the terms of Confederation should not be fulfilled. That is the reason | bring it up. Im 1886 a statement showing the amount contribut- ed by the Island was prepared by Messrs. Sullivan and Ferguson, who were appoint- ed a delegation from the Provincial Gov- ernment on a question of winter communi-; cation, to the Secretary of State for the Colonies. This statement shows the amount contributed by the Island, and 1 cannot do better than read it tu the House. After the speech delivered by the hon. member for Queen’s (Mr. Davies) who put the case very clearly from the Island stand- point and very moderately, I was quite willing to Jeave the question as it was then ‘submitted to the House, although I might have supplemented his remarks by adding a few figures which [ thought he had omit- ted. The statement to which 1 refer says :
“<The difficulty of arriving at an absolutely eorrect calculation of the amount of dutiable ‘goods which the people of Prince Edward consume cannot fail to be appreciated, yet | the undersigned submit that there are several | methods by which it my fairly be estimated. 1t must be premised that the people of the Island are very large consumers of dutiable | goods, for he reason that, being chiefly en- | x¢ged in agriculture ani fishing, their manu- factures ere very small as compared with the | reat of Canada, valuing, according to the last census ieturns, only $31,335 per head to $72.63 per head cf the other provinces.
‘In proof of the assertion that the people of the Island are principally engaged in agriculture and fishing, the undersigned would again advert to the census returns of 1881, which show that (the North-West Territories not being included )—
‘One-half the area of Prince Edward Island is cultivated.
Only one twenty-fifth of the other provinces is cultivated.
‘Prince Edward Island has a population of fifty-one te the square mile,
**The other provinces only 4.72.
‘Prince Edward Island owns 55 animals of live stock for every 100 acres of improved land.
‘“‘The other provinces only 38.
‘In field products, Prince Edward Island raises to the acre of improved land 1083 bushels.
‘“‘The other provinces only 614 bushels. ‘*From the Sate Prince Edward Island produces $17.08 per head value.
‘*The other provinces $3.55. : “The people of the Island are generally in comfortable circumstances, in proof of which may be adduced the amount of deposits per head in the Savings Banke, which averages $16.59 for the Island against 7.66 for the rest of the Dominion.
‘These figures clearly prove that the people of Prince Edward Island, from the fact of their not being extensive manufacturers, are nader the necessity of using imported goods to a large extent, while the fertility of their soil, the value “of their fisheries, and their general independence, demonstrate their ability to purchase. This being understood, the undersigned submit the following calcula- tions, designed to show that the imports of dutiable gooda into the Island are very much larger than suggested by the Committee of Council, and consequently the contributions to the revenue proportionately greater.”
They take three methods of arriving at the amount that is paid?into the general treasury by the people of Prince Edward
revenue of the Dominion: They say :
MeTHOD lL. The average revenue of the Dominion from customs an’ excise, for the three years ended 30th June, 1884, was $27,603,479. The popu- lation of Prince Edward Island to that of the whole Dominion is in the proportion of 1 to 39.7. Upon this ratio, the Island’s share of the customs and excise revenue would amount to $695,301. METHOD 2,
In 1872, the year before its admission into the Union, Prince Edward Is- land imported directly from countries beyond Canada good value at.... $1,372,581
The duty on which am- ounted tov....5...6.-65-
And from Canada, goods the growth and manufac- ture of other countries, valued renner erg at
The duty on which am- ounted ae eo oee sey sees 89,168
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$1,801.935 $273,395
Tha: was according to the duties levied before Confederation, which were only 11 percent. There was, [ believe, a duty of 23 per cent. on account of the railway being built, but as there was a large free list the average duty did not amount to 13 per cent. They go on te say:
$184,227
428,354
| Confederation aggregated in value £3,543,147
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lation, the Islaud’s importa from countries outside the Dominion have decreased from $1,801,935 to $822,966, or over 45 per cent., | yet this would appear to be the contention of the Committee of Council, | **Ip 1861 the imports of the Island amount. ed to $1.02] 669 ; in 1872 they had , increased to $2,449,064, or at the rate of 138.7 per cent. | At the same rate, its imposts from countries beyond the Dominion should have increased from $1,801,935 in 1872 to $4,304,824 in 1884, which, at the present average tariff (free and 'dutiable combined) of 18.64 per cent., would ‘give # customs revenue of $802,419.
‘“‘METHOD 3. **it is a well established principle that the
|imports and exports of a country bear a
What the Tunnel Will Cast, reasonable relation to each other.
The im- ports of the Island for the ten years preceding
sterling. The exports in the same period,
| £2,559,091 sterling, showing that the imports
exceeded the exports by about £100,000 ster!- ing, or $500,000 annually. The imports of the Dominion for the last seventeen years aggregated in value $1,732,983,486; the ex- ports in the game period, $1,390,946,803, showing that the imports exceeded the exports by about $20,000,000 annually, or in the same proportion, according to population, as the imports of Prince Edward Island exceeded the exports in the years already quoted. “The exports of the Island have stead. increased during the last twenty
five years. In 1861 it exported to
| all countries goods valued at $793,810, which
had increased in 1872 to $1,497,058, or at the rate of 88 3-5 per cent.
**In 1872, the Island exported to countries beyond the Dominion goods valued at $722,- 333, which had increased in 1884 to $1,310,- 039, or at the rate of 8] 1-3 per cent.
** Apply this rate of increase to the Island's imports from countries beyond the Dominion in 1872, and we have as a result for 1884, imports valued at $3,267,509.
** But the figures contained in the Dominion Trade and Navigation Returns do not repre- sent the total exports of the Isiand to coun
ries beyond the Dominion, inasmuch as a
considerable proportion, being shipped through Nova Scotia and New Brunswick territory, is credited tothe exports of those provinces. The annual export of horses from the Island tothe United States is not less than 1,500, valued at $150,000. The Domin- ion returns for 1883-84 credit the Island with only 256, valued at $27,486. This is but an instance of many. A conriderable part of the large trade which the Island does in eggs with the United States is credited to New Bruns- wick, while fish and potatoes, which are largely exported to Newfoundland, St. Pierre a the West Indies, are, much of them, credited to Nova Scotia, being shipped by way of Halifax. In view of these facts, it would be within the mark to estimate, as indeed the Committee of Council admit, that the Island’s foreign export trade bas doubled siace 1872. Apply the same rate of increase to its imports from the countries beyond the Dominion, as they stoed in 1872, and we have, asaresult, for 1884, imports valued at $3,603,371, yielding under ‘an 18 64-100 per cent. tariff, an annual revenue of $671,668.
‘*The exports of Prince Edward Island, since Confederation, have increased in a much larger ratio than have done those of the Dominion, as the following figures will show : ‘*The total exports of the Dominion for 1871-72 were $82,629,683; for 1883-84, exclu- sive of the Island, $90,096,437, or an increase of only 9 1-42 per cent., as against 100 per cent. by which the Island’s exports have increased in the same time.
**To recapitulate the results of the various methods :—
*¢ Method 1, .......+...-e0ee FSH $695,301 Pett Bi. 5 wins dade oie ccivesisctei 802,419 RB OCROE-S . oie c's denn vc ne ccetnceens 671,668
** Average annual contribution by the
Island from Customs and Excise... 723,129
Mr. Speaker, I wish to show the House that by the three methods which they adopted, the total results they bring out are so nearly alike that | think none of them can be very far astray and that they can be admitted by this House as being as nearly correct as it is possible to get them, The first method of calculation gives a revenue of $695,301, the second $802,419, and the third method $671,668, and if we strike an average it gives us atotal of $723,- 129 that Prince Edward Island contributes in duty and excise. You all remember that the hon. gentleman from Toronto (Mr. Oockburn) leaving the amount of Customs and Excise out altogether, gave us credit for $200,000 received from various sources, and if we add that other amount, $723,000, we havea total of over $900,000 contributed by Prince Edward Island. 1 claim that this is far nearer the mark, and more in ac- cordance with the returns given in the blue books, than the amount mentioned by the hon. member for Centre Toronto (Mr. Cockburn). If I were to
CARRY OUT THE CALCULATIONS and take the ten years before we went into Confederation I could show
that from 1862 to 1872, agd from 1872 to 1882 and from 1882 to 1891 there was such an increase ef the goods imported by Prince Edward Island, that we would have im- ports amounting to $4,756,000, and the duty at the rate we paid last year would be $1,008,937. Ido not claim that these figures are correct, because we all know that Prince Edward Island purchases more goods of the manufacture of the Dominion of Canada since we went into Confedera- tion than we did before. But because the hon. member for Centre Toronto did not find that Prince Edward Island did not pay any duty on sugar in the years I have quoted, it is not fair to say that the people of Prince Edward Island did not consume any sugar in those years, Nor was it fair on hie part to say that because he found that Prince Edward Island paid very little excise duty on tobacco, there being only two factories on the Island, therefore the people of Prince Edward Island do not consume any tobacco. JI believe that the people of Prince Edward Island consumed a portion of the liquor manufactured in Toronto; but because the hon. gentleman found that there were no distilleries on Prince Edward Island it was unfair to claim that Prince Edward Island did not consume any spirits or malt liquors at all. Ic is eighteen years to-day since Prince Ed-
“Tt will surely not be argued that in thirteen years, with a large increase fn popu-
ward Island entered Confederation, whether
for good or for evil. The people of that (sland have never complained of the amount they have had to pay; but they do complain that the Dominion haa not ear- ried out the PLEDGES MADE TO PRINCE EDWARD ISLAND
st that time with regard to winter communic- ation. Whatever else the members of this House may disagree upon, they will agree that the terms of Confederatios, so far as Prince Edward Island ie concerned, have not been carried out. That is the grievance of the people of the Island, and they resent the imputation that they have not contributed their share to the general revenue. They have paid all they have been asked to pay; er have contributed all that the contract made with them at Confederation called on them to contribute; and they ask in return that this great Dominion shall carry out the pledges it made to Prince Edward Island at that time. This is the question before the House at the present time. But for the speech of the hon. member for Centre Toronto, I would not have troubled the House with the array of figures which I have read to-night; but I think I am only doing my duty to the people who sent me here in resenting any im- utation that the people of Prince Edward sland do not consume as many — per head as the people of the reat of the Dominion. They do not, it is true, import as much from abroad as they did before the Confederation; but I am satisfied that if the hon. member for Cenre Toronto enquired among the me:chante of Toronto, he would find that a great many of the goods imported there from Greta Britain and the United States, find their way soon afterwards to the Maritime Pro- vinces. Mr, Speaker, a tunnel is believed by the people of Prince Edward Island, and by a good many people outside of that pravince, to be the only means by which the terms of Confederation can be properly carried out, In the memoradum submitted a few days ago by the hon. Minister of Finance, we find that world-renowned engineers have proneunced the construction of a tunnel under the Straits of Northumberland to be feasible. There are three estimates made of the cost of the work—-one a little over $5,000,000, one about $8,000,000, and one about $11,000,000. I do not think, with the information before the House at the present time, that [ could take it upon my- self to say which of these tunnels the Gov- ernment should give to the people of Prinve Edward Island. I claim that in construct- ing this tunnel the Government would not be giving it to the people of Prince Ed- ward Island alone. The trade done with Nova Scotia and New Brunswick is of as much service te the people of these prov- inces as to the people of Prince KF iward Is- land. In equalizing the prices of farm pro- ducts alone. it would have a beneficial ef- fect on Nova Scotia and New Brinswick. Bat to the people of Prince Edward Island it wocld be the means of giving a market, and extending the time during which that market would be available. Now, I say that both parties in this House are pledged to give Prince Edward Island efficient communication, summer and winter, if it is found possible to do it within a reasonable amount; so that the only question for the House to consider is whether the amount necessary for the construction of a tunnel is a reasonable amount,
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