Canada 1874-1896 by P.B. Waite

Author:P.B. Waite [Waite, P.B.]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: McClelland & Stewart
Published: 2016-09-27T00:00:00+00:00

Railway Lines in the Maritime Provinces and Newfoundland by the 1890’s

There ought to be some limit to discrimination…but in trade the laws of competition can seldom be safely interfered with. Where to draw the line is a difficulty that has puzzled the wisest legislators in the world.28

Walter Shanly, a veteran railway builder, made a similar point when McCarthy’s bill came up for second reading in 1886:

There are duties and powers entrusted to the three members of the [railway] commission that no thirty men in the Dominion – or on this continent…could discharge. The effect of the Bill will be to place in the hands of those three Commissioners all that is now being done by the regular management of the railways, and those men are expected to do that which it takes fifty men working almost night and day….29

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