摘要：The pursuit of a more regionally balanced national economy has been a Canadian political goal since at least the late 1950s. Other countries, such as the United Kingdom, West Germany and Japan, have also pursued it. Today in Canada, however, this goal has become rather blurred and downplayed. Even before the recession of 1982 focused the nation's attention on the difficulties of the more developed parts of the country, public interest in the possibility of achieving sorne kind of regional balance in Canada had been declining. Federal fiscal problems have added to the pressure to lower what priority the regional problem might once have had.
