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 2. As an excellent field for emigration, Canada furnishes Great Britain with an outlet for her surplus population. A grant of 160 acres of farm-lands is made by the Colonial Government to bonâ-fide settlers in the North-West. In this way the Dominion plays a special part in providing ground for the expansion of the Empire. For, without any change of allegiance, the British emigrant finds in his new home opportunities of improving his condition which he could never have enjoyed in the land of his birth. The race is renewed by contact with the soil of a new country, and the old land profits by the increased prosperity of its Imperial offshoots.

3. Canada furnishes a field for the investment of British capital, still under the flag.

4. In the militia of the Dominion Canada maintains a force of approximately 40,000 volunteers, of whom about 1,500 are enrolled in permanent corps for instructional purposes. This small permanent force, which is practically composed of regulars, will be increased to 4,000 by the change to be mentioned in the next section. It should also be stated that, through the commissions given every year to the most successful cadets of the Royal Military College at Kingston, Canada has contributed something also to the personnel of the British army. This privilege will, it is understood, be extended in the near future to the Canadian Universities as well.

5. The Dominion Government has arranged to maintain Halifax and Esquimault henceforward at their present standard of equipment, for the use of British ships of war. The equipment includes unlimited steaming coal, and it is understood that the resultant expenditure will be some $2,000,000 in the coming fiscal year.

6. Apart from such undertakings and obligations, the Canadian people showed, by their spontaneous action during the South African War, with all the possibilities for the future which it implied, that they might be counted on in an emergency.