Canada and the Navy.

Horowhenua Chronicle, 11 August 1910, Page 4

Canada and the Navy.

STRONG SPKECII PY -Ml! IsoK-di-:X. Mr Borden, Leader oi" the Opposition in the Canadian Ihn.se oi Commous, in the course of a second of ;i series of speeches at Ij«iiK Hrnnt'li discussed at length the naval programme of the Lnurier Atlniijiistratio*), and iji closing sawl: — The Canadian Parliament has an absolute risiht to control the expenditure to 1)0 undertaken by_ Cai)a - 'a for the naval defence of the Empire. The Conservative Party makes no proposal that pi any wise i'ttei I'oros with the autonomy of this country. Put i>) time of war there must bo a central control ii the niival defence of the Kmpire is to be effective. If by the free a r, t ol the Canadian people thrr,u i'b Parliament the naval forces of Can a:la were placed at the disposal of the Admiralty or of- some cential authority in time of war, ii'.nt would not interfere with our autonomy. Parliament which enacted sticli a statute could repeal or mo:T!'y it. Hut to undertake the conduct oi active in sudden and deadly warfare l>y an Order in Council is not 0]) lv absurd but da-sreroiis. ft we are of the Kmpire ijj time oi 1 peace we must be of the Kmpire in time of war. Are we to repose ithe protection of iihe Pritish flat?: ,* it, peace, to on.ioy the advantage ol British citizenship, to take part in the delibei atiojis of the Kmpire, »ml to shrink from the gnme w'.en da-j----<*er confront". usP Sic-h is not the n.essnjre which the Britons ol Canada will ever send to the Britons of l;'ie Mother Isles, unless the ok. stock has sadlv degenerated r,- tli's side of the Atlantic.