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Excerpt from In the Matter of the Building Department of the Board of Education of the City of Toronto
Insurance on the school propertles ls negotlated and placed by the Chalrmen of the Flnance Conmlttee Mr. C. A. B. Brown. The rate, 70 cents for a three year term, has been the same for many years. In round flgures about 18 pald every three years. The 1nsurance carrled 18 It IS not a very adequate pro tectlon hav1ng reference to the total value of the bulldlngs. The Department has a llat of the names of the Toronto agents of the companles 1nsur1ng. It 18 qulte frankly spoken of and aptly referred to as the Patronage Ilet, the perpetuatlon of a tlme-honoured custom 1t 18 sald solemnly adopted thlrty-flve or forty years ago. It means that although the favoured agents do nothlng and can do nothlng ln p1a01ng the 1nsurance or f1x1ng the rate-perform no serv1ce ln fact- yet the premlum pald by the Board 1nc1udes fees or comm1ss1ons for the agents, puts them upon the same bas1s as where they sollcltit and obtaln prlvate 1nd1v1dual rlsks. The contentlon 18 that the publlc should not have to prov1de a gratulty for these dormant agents, that 18, that the sums \th p0 to these agents should be cut out and the premlums and renewal premiums reduced accordlngly. Tvo answers are set up. The frrst 18 hold and 1ndefensrble, namely, that these men are entltled to thls trlfllng consrderatlon as c1tlzens and taxpayers. DO are we all but tnls gives us no rlght to fatten at the publlc expense M11nout servrce. I spent twelve years ln hat 1s regarded by some people as the V1t1ating atmosphere of public life at Ottawa yet my.
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