April 30, 1903 (9th Parliament, 3rd Session)

Mr. GRANT.

And strange to say, the advocacy of retaliation comes very largely from those who are constantly holding the United States up to us as the model upon which we should form our fiscal policy. It is patent to every reasonable man, Sir, that a fair analogy cannot be drawn between Canada and the United States in regard to the tariff question. We know that the American union is an aggregation of populous and resourceful states, embracing at once both tropical and temperate regions. We are not similarly situated to them. Anyway, if we were looking for instruction or guidance in fiscal or in constitutional matters generally, I for one would prefer to look across the Atlantic to the motherland for sound teaching in fiscal policy.