RECIPROCITY AGREEMENT.
WILL IT COST THE LOSS OF
CANADA.
DENIED, REPUDIATED AND RIDICULED.
Mr W. Max Aitken, M.P., scouts the suggestion of Mr. He wins, secretary of the Tariff Commission, that the Can-adian-American reciprocity agreement will cost the Empire the "loss of Canada.
“Such an assertion,'” says Mr. Aitken, “has not been made by any of Mr Hewins’s leaders it is conspicuously absent from Mr. Balfour’s speeches, it is denied by President Taft, repudiated by Sir Wilfrid Laurier, ridiculed by Mr. Asquith.” The “Western Daily News,” discussing the same subject writes:—“This bolting and barring policy of Canada will necessarily bring about a weakening of the Imperial tie, and will pave the way for the establishment of a Canadian Republic. “It might be avoided if the Canadian Government consents to either a general election or a 'referendum on reciprocity. But Sir Wilfrid Laurier is apparently resolved to carry reciprocity in the same relentless fashion in which Mr. Asquith is bringing about Home Rule.”
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Gisborne Times, Volume XXIX, Issue 3229, 27 May 1911, Page 3
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162RECIPROCITY AGREEMENT. Gisborne Times, Volume XXIX, Issue 3229, 27 May 1911, Page 3
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