CANADIAN POLICY

Evening Post, Volume CXXXVI, Issue 57, 4 September 1943, Page 7

CANADIAN POLICY

TRADE AFTER THE WAR

NEW

YORK, ' September 2,

Mr. Brooke Claxton, Parliamentary Secretary to the Prime Minister of Canada, outlined at a Press conference today, points in Canadian foreign policy which hitherto have been unknown either to the Canadian public or to the rest of the world, says the "New York Times."

"The Canadians wish to join a PanAmerican union and wish to co-operate with the United States in the defence of the American continent," he said, "but they prefer the inclusion of Britain as an outpost of the American defences." He added: "Canada will not return to trade restrictions after the war unless the United States again imposes high tariffs. Canada prefers the widest possible international trade to the reinstatement of the' Ottawa agreements after the war." POST-WAR CO-OPERATION. Mr. Claxton emphasised that Canada would like to see a British-American-Soviet agreement after the war, and that unless the three great Powers worked together one group would attempt to set up Germany again as a buffer State, with policies equivalent to appeasement and isolation all over again. He pointed out that before the ' war Canada sold more to Britain than she bought from her, and bought more from the United Stater that she sold. Now Canada bought twice as. much from the United States, arid paid cash for it. Canada was "supplying Britain, without payment, with twice as much as she used to sell to Britain.

Canada had more than doubled her national income since the war and had reduced her external debt by more than a billion dbllars. Canada had become the largest per capita food producer of the United Nations. Although she had become highly industrialised, Canada would not compete with Britain's specialised exports after the war.