For the maintenance and expansion of this military programme an appropriation of thirteen hundred million dollars ($1,300,000,000) was recently voted in the House of Commons.
Stupendous though this figure is, the Minister of Finance announced that he expected the appropriation to be exceeded and that his estimate was that in the next fiscal year (1941 to 1942) Canada's direct war effort would cost the Canadian people fourteen hundred and fifty million di Jars ($1.450,000,000). This is Canada's outright national contribution as a belligerent. It is bei paid for in full by the Canadian people. It is not something that has been leased to Britain. It is not something that is being lent to Britain. it a ect contribution by Ca › the cause of freedom. it repr the freewill offering which Dominion began to make over a year and a half ago when it was decided that Canada should enter the war at the side of Britain, Tt is a contribution which Canada aking today and which she will continue te make.
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