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Updated: June 7, 2025
This chapter is the substance of a lecture given in Antigonish, N.S., at the Educational Conference, Aug. 11, 1919. Principle on which should be Based the Division of Company-Taxes between Public and Separate Schools.
He deals with every one indifferently. The dollar of a Christian or of a heathen has the same value as the dollar of a Jew. Were a company to discriminate with the public on lines of creed the public would be justified in retaliating. Public utility, in matters of Company-taxes, is the basic principle of assessment; it should also be the reason of their equitable distribution.
This is one of the reasons why our rate is often so high when compared with the Public School rate, and why our Boards are crippled in their finances. This simple reasoning should appeal to every fair-minded man. This change of legislation we advocate in the matter of Company-taxes, is not a favour we beg but the mere recognition of a principle of distributive justice we ask.
The division of Company-taxes according to the faith of the shareholders is neither just, nor practical. It is not just for the reason we have brought forward. The principle involved in the present law is just when the individual is concerned, especially when the individual is the father of a family. As such, one has a right to support the school which his conscience obliges him to support.
The local manager is the one who deals with the problem, and he often is a stranger to the laws of the Province, with no sympathy for separate schools. Facts, stubborn facts, are there to prove our contention. In no city of the Province of Saskatchewan is the Separate School Board getting its part of Company-taxes.
This natural right, our present law recognizes. But in the case of a company the principle of public utility and not the test of faith should be invoked, we believe. This present law governing Company-taxes is not practical. The onus is on the Separate School-Board to enlist each year the sympathies of the companies. Before how many Boards of Directors is the matter brought up?
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