CANADA AND WAR

Dominion, Volume 35, Issue 264, 6 August 1942, Page 6

CANADA AND WAR

Free House Insurance OTTAWA, August. 1. By budgetary enactments the Canadian taxpayer is required to make financial sacrifices which are without parallel. During the present, financial year Canada will spent! nearly 4,000,000,000 dollars. The war this year cost Canada in dollars twice as much as the entire last world war. Parliament approved the Land Settlement Scheme for Canadian war veterans who want to become farmers and who are likely to make a success of it. Under the Bill, the State contribution, subject to performance by the settler of prescribed conditions, is a grant equal to one-third of the cost of land and buildings with a further grant of cash for the cost of stock and equipment. On a maximum basis the annual payment required from a settler will be 144 dollars. A ceiling of 4800 dollars is placed upon the cost which may be incurred by the State on behalf of a veteran. Of this 1200 dollars is applicable to livestock and equipment. Another measure requires employers where reasonable and practicable to take back men and women who left their employment to join the Armed Forces. Free War Risk Insurance up to 3000 dollars on a dwelling house, with 400 dollars on chattels, is provided in an additional Government measure.