Note 731 — APPENDIXES
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"In England you have thickly congested rural districts, large towns every few miles, and tremendous cities: in Canada you have a population of less than 8,000,000 spread over a vast area, with few cities or large towns, and with vast spaces that must be traversed where no population exists.... We are giving, as compared with England, a flat rate in an area twice as great as Britain gives parcel post, and where all the conditions are much less favourable."—Hon. L. Pelletier, Parl. Debates, Canada (Commons), 4th June 1913.