现在,加拿大往往被描绘为“财阀的天堂”。加拿大的、美国的以及英国的商业杂志,始终不倦地宣传着加拿大所提供的巨大投资潜力。由於获取高额利润,加拿大的商人们目前都逐渐同意前总理劳利埃的意见,这位总理在本世纪之初曾预言说:假如十九世纪是美国世纪的话,二十世纪将会是加拿大的。现任总理圣劳伦亦同样预料,加拿大的前途是光明的。最近,他说,加拿大拥有比世界上任何国家更大的潜在资源,其前途将是无限的繁荣。他在为伦敦“统计学家”杂志关於加拿大的增刊所写的序言中宣称:“现在我们正处於另一个巨大发展时期的开端。”为什麽加拿大在目前新闻中受到这样的重视呢?与其用它的经济的稳步前进来解释,不如说是因为大多数其他资本主义国家呈现着一幅暗淡的景象的缘故。尽管各资本主义国家的政府拚命增加军事拨款、新的捐税以及进一步的通货膨胀来防止正在成熟的经济危机,但事实上,在这些国家经济 Now Canada is often portrayed as “a chaebol paradise.” Business magazines in Canada, the United States, and the United Kingdom have always tirelessly promoted the huge investment potential Canada has provided. As a result of high profits, Canadian businessmen are now gradually agree with the views of the former Prime Minister Lao Laier, the Prime Minister at the beginning of this century had predicted that if the 19th century is the United States century, the twentieth century will be Canada of. The current Prime Minister, St. Laurent, also predicted that the future of Canada is bright. Recently, he said Canada has more potential than any other country in the world and its future will be boundlessly prosperous. In his preface to London’s Statistician’s supplement to Canada, he declared: “We are now at the beginning of another immense period of development.” Why is Canada so valued in the current news? Its steady economic progress has to be explained not so much because most other capitalist countries have a bleak picture. Although the governments of the capitalist countries are desperate to increase their military appropriations, new taxes and further inflation to prevent the maturing economic crisis, in fact, in these countries, the economy