LONG ADJOURNMENT

Wairarapa Times-Age, 3 August 1942, Page 4

LONG ADJOURNMENT

TAKEN BY CANADIAN PARLIAMENT CONSCRIPTION AND WAR TAXES. THE GOVERNMENT’S RECORD. (By Telegraph-Press Association—Copyright) (Received This Day, 12.55 p.m.) OTTAWA, August 2. • Parliament has been suspended until January 26, 1943, after almost continuous sessions since last November. The outstanding piece of legislation was the passage of the Overseas Conscription Act, which, after many weeks of debate, was supported by an overwhelmingly favourable plebiscite. The Government also imposed a tremendous tax burden on the people, to pay for war expenditure—this year 3,300,000,000 dollars. Under the new rates, single persons earning 3,000 dollars pay 1,064 dollars income tax. A married man with two children, and the same income, pays 664 dollars. Mr Mackenzie King’s Government remains substantially the same as it was following the elections of May, 1940. Mr King has been criticised violently by some sections of the Press for his failure to give the country what is called’dynamic leadership, and for his failure to make a Union Government' of all parties, but his supporters reply that the record of national unity is one justifying the claim that the Premier has brought Canada as far along the road to total war, while preserving as democratic a form of government, as in any other of the United Nations.