A review of dominion-provincial conferences on provincial financial statistics, 1933-1960 /

With a view to furthering the objects of this Conference, The Dominion Bureau of Statistics should reconvene this Conference at the earliest possible date, but not later than some time during the year 1945, following the submission to and consideration by the Provinces of the reports and recommen- dations of the Continuing Committee. [...] D. A. Skelton, as Secretary of the Co-ordinating Committee of the Dominion-Provincial Reconstruction Conference, 1945, with the request that it be brought to the attention of the responsible authorities with a view to having it considered at the forthcoming meeting of Provincial Premiers on November 26th; and that a copy of the resolution and memorandum referred to, as well as a copy of this Resol [...] It is not the intention of the Bureau of Statistics or the government, nor has it been the purpose of these Conferences, to impose the recommendations of the Conferences upon the provinces. [...] The substance of the work of these Conferences which relates more directly to the supplying of information to the Dominion Bureau of Statistics for the purpose of public finance statis- tics, has now been more or less concluded and it remains only for the Bureau, with the continued co- operation of the provincial authorities concerned, to proceed with the implementation of the Conference recommend [...] These variations range from the complete inclusion of the assets and liabilities of such funds in the provincial balance sheet, to the reflection of the working capital accounts on the basis of the net advance from the general revenues of the province to each fund.