OPENING OF CANADIAN PARLIAMENT
TAX.ON MUNITION PROFITEERING SUFFRAGE FOR ! WOMEN (Rec. March :9, 10.30 p.m.) Ottawa, March 18. At the opening of Parliament the speech from the Throne said the Military Service Act was producing the men required to keep up the Canadian reinforcements for the front. Legislation. wa-s outlined for the abolition of politioal' patronago, and to. facilitate immigration and colonisation after the war, to encourage agricultural production, and create a special Government Department to provide for tho care and education of returned soldiers. Bills would be introduced placing additional taxes on munition profiteering, granting the suffrage to women on the same terms asm en, providing for daylight saving, establishing a Canadian war sion in the United States in order to cooperate with Washington in common war measures, providing for the suppression of importation and manufacture of alcoholic liquors, providing for the registration of the entire manpower and woman-power of the country with the object of utilising labour essential for industries and agriculture.— Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn.
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Dominion, Volume 11, Issue 155, 20 March 1918, Page 5
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167OPENING OF CANADIAN PARLIAMENT Dominion, Volume 11, Issue 155, 20 March 1918, Page 5
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