Decline
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The Family Compact can take direct responsibility for the failure to carry out the social goals of representative government, constitutional reform and the clergy and crown reserves issue. The Compact is, however, only indirectly responsible for land reform, public education and roads; those issue being largely within the authority of the Canada Company. While the Canada Company and the Compact were seen as one and the same, the Compact shouldered any blame.
The Canada Company Commissioners in Canada were Thomas Mercer Jones for Goderich 1829–1853 and Frederick Widder for Toronto 1839–1864. Jones joined the Colborne Clique in 1853 leaving the 2 million square acre Huron Tract with no representation on the board of the Company who were under specific obligations to provide schools, roads and fair access to purchase of that land.
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Famous quotes containing the word decline:
“Or else I thought her supernatural;
As though a sterner eye looked through her eye
On this foul world in its decline and fall,
On gangling stocks grown great, great stocks run dry,
Ancestral pearls all pitched into a sty,
Heroic reverie mocked by clown and knave....”
—William Butler Yeats (1865–1939)
“Where mass opinion dominates the government, there is a morbid derangement of the true functions of power. The derangement brings about the enfeeblement, verging on paralysis, of the capacity to govern. This breakdown in the constitutional order is the cause of the precipitate and catastrophic decline of Western society. It may, if it cannot be arrested and reversed, bring about the fall of the West.”
—Walter Lippmann (1889–1974)
“I rather think the cinema will die. Look at the energy being exerted to revive it—yesterday it was color, today three dimensions. I don’t give it forty years more. Witness the decline of conversation. Only the Irish have remained incomparable conversationalists, maybe because technical progress has passed them by.”
—Orson Welles (1915–1984)