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practicability of the various suggestions which I shall shortly 

 present, to you are in all respects final. There is always the 

 possibility that a further investigation of facts and a more 

 complete analysis of all the economic and human factors 

 entering into the problems, may lead to some modification 

 of opinion. For this reason I shall endeavor to give as 

 fully as possible the reasons which lead me to put forward 

 particular suggestions. 



Recognizing the necessary limitations as to the linulity 

 of my proposals, they may yet be of value as indicating 

 certain lines upon which further investigation and discus- 

 sion may proceed. I do not think it is appropriate, even if 

 there were time, that I should attempt in these lectures to 

 work out in detail the specific application of the principles 

 which I shall lay down. 



It will be convenient to group the proposals which I 

 have to make into four classes, dealing in the first with the 

 law which should be universally applicable to all tenants-at- 

 will and sub-tenants, in other words applicable to all those 

 not protected by a lease or statutory right and who should 

 be entitled, I propose, to hold as yearly tenants. In the 

 second class will come all the questions relating to the rights 

 of lessees and occupancy tenants and others having a sub- 

 proprietary right, treated in this application to the existing 

 laws of these Provinces. In the third class I shall discuss the 

 specific measures of protection of tenants of all classes which 

 should be provided by law, and in the fourth class will come 

 proposals for the administrative measures for the protection 

 of tenants. 



Distinction of Holdings according to Size 



No proposal which I could make would be valid, how- 

 ever, for agricultural holdings of all sizes and kinds. Their 

 variety is too great for it to be possible to bring them under 

 one rule of law without injuring the interests of one class 



