CANADIAN NAVY.
"MOST RIDICULOUS 1 PAGE IN THE DOMINION'S HISTORY."
At a banquet given in his honour at Quebec m December, Mr. Metier, tho 1 ostmasfcer-Genernl, said; "There was hardly any need for a direct appeal to the people to find out whether we Conservatives should abandon o'rMiot abandon the Laurier poncy in the niatter of the Canadian Navy. Jt did not take us long to come to the uniinimons conclusion that a naval policy so unacceptable ■ as that ot the late Government should be thrown aside.
Commander Roper had said that the ..anadian Navy was in a disorganised «• Vi* - r ? a( ,' } ' ", w 's'po of vessel which • ir Wiltrid Laurier had wished, to build was out of date and practically useless. On October (I Admiral Kingsiiiill con-curred.in-the views ot Commander Roper and thus the Government .decided it was high time to put an end !o such a. state of adairs.
"The money deposited by tenderers for building other units of the Navy was returned, said Mr. Pelletier, "and so we Conservatives'wore unanimous iu blottiiv out this most ridiculous page of Canadian history when the country, had foisted liporl it a navy as powerless and useless for the defenco of Candida as for tho defence of tho Empire." (Cheers.)— Router
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Dominion, Volume 5, Issue 1350, 30 January 1912, Page 9
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209CANADIAN NAVY. Dominion, Volume 5, Issue 1350, 30 January 1912, Page 9
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