§ MR. CATHCART WASON. (Orkney and Shetland)To ask the Under-Secretary of State for the Colonies if he can state what sum in gross or per head the Dominion of Canada pays directly towards the defence of the Empire (not including any local payments for land or lake police).
(Answered by Colonel Seely.) The expenditure of Canada on defence, according to the latest completed Returns for the year ending 31st March, 1907, was at the rate of £1,333,000 a year, or about 4s. 6d. per head of the population, while the estimated expenditure for 1907–8 was £1,475,800, or about 5s. per head of the population.