Decline
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The Family Compact can take direct responsibility for the failure to carry out the social goals of representative government, constitutional reform and the clergy and crown reserves issue. The Compact is, however, only indirectly responsible for land reform, public education and roads; those issue being largely within the authority of the Canada Company. While the Canada Company and the Compact were seen as one and the same, the Compact shouldered any blame.
The Canada Company Commissioners in Canada were Thomas Mercer Jones for Goderich 1829–1853 and Frederick Widder for Toronto 1839–1864. Jones joined the Colborne Clique in 1853 leaving the 2 million square acre Huron Tract with no representation on the board of the Company who were under specific obligations to provide schools, roads and fair access to purchase of that land.
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