ALASKAN BOUNDARY.
CANADIAN PREMIER SPEAKS PLAINLY.
By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyrighl Received 10.23 p.m., Oct. 26. Ottawa, Oct. 26.
Sir Wilfrid Laurier, in the Dominion House of Commons, roplying to tho Opposition criticisms on the Alaska award, said he would not believe until Lord Alvorstoue’s reasons for iris opinion had been received that Canada's interest had not been sacrificed. Tho Lynn Canal decision was open to argument, bat, he was at a loss to understand tho Portland Channel decision so long as the canal was a dependency of tho Crown. Tho present powers were insufficient, and they must ask the Motherland for extension to enable them to deal with similar questions in future iu their own fashion according to the best light they had. He said ho often regretted that Canada lay alongside a grasping and powerful nation like tho United States, also that Canada lacked treaty making power.
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Gisborne Times, Volume X, Issue 1032, 27 October 1903, Page 2
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