RECENT INTERGOVERNMENTAL FISCAL RELATIONS IN AUSTRALIA AND CANADA

There is a tendency to look upon intergovernmental relations as a sort of contest between opposing teams, whereas really they are part of a productive enterprise in which all who participate are members of the same team . . . . . . The responsibilities of government have grown so great, its operations are of such importance, the alternatives to efficient free government are so full of threat to personal liberties that we can no longer tolerate the luxury of governmental units that block each other's way in a confused movement toward divergent goals. The course I am urging is an imperative search for means to preserve the freedom inherent in our system of multiple government while ending the license of individual units of government to impair the common interest through competition and conflict.