We Have Complained that Immense Sums of Public Money Have Been Taken from the Public Chest for Local Purposes of Lower Canada (Quebec), but Upper Canada (Ontario) Is Forced to Contribute 75% of the Cash

George Brown (Upper Canada or Canada West, Legislative Assembly, February 8, 1865): We have also complained that immense sums of public money have been systematically taken from the public chest for local purposes of Lower Canada, in which the people of Upper Canada had no interest whatever, though compelled to contribute three-fourths of the cash. Well, sir, this scheme remedies that. All local matters are to be banished from the general legislature; local governments are to have control over local affairs, and if our friends in Lower Canada choose to be extravagant, they will have to bear the burden of it themselves. (Hear, hear.)

--Janet Ajzenstat et al., eds., Canada's Founding Debates (Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2003), 288.