CANADIAN POLITICS.

Press, Volume LIV, Issue 16165, 20 March 1918, Page 9

CANADIAN POLITICS.

GOVERNMENT'S PROGRAMME ! OUTLINED. (By Cable.—Press Association.—Copyright.) (Australian and N.Z. Cable Association.) (Received March 19th, 10.30 p.m.) OTTAWA, March 18. The Governor-General, in his epcoeh at the opening of the Canadian Parliament, said that the Military Service Act was producing the men required to keep up Canadian reinforcements at the front. Legislation was outlined for the abolition of political patronage; to facilitate immigration and colonisation after the war; to encourage agricultural production, and to create a special Government Department to provide for the care smd education of returned soldiers. Bills will be submitted to place additional taxes on munitions profiteering; to grant suffrage to women on the same terms as men; to introduce daylight saving; to establish a Canadian War Mission to the United States, in order to co-operate with Washington in common war measures; providing for the suppression of the importation or manufacture of alcoholic liquors, and providing for the registration of the entire man-power and woman-power of the country, with the object of utilising labour for essential industries and agriI culture.