CANADIAN POLITICS.
BIG LEGISLATIVE PROGRAMME. OTTAWA March 18. A very extensive • programme of legislation wqs foreshadowed at the opening of Parliament by the speech from the Throne. It promised the following measures, A Military Service Act for producing the men required to keep up the Canadian reinforcements at the front. Legislation for the abolition of political patronage, A Measure to facilitate immigration and Colonisation after the war. A Bill to encourage agricultural pro. Auction. The creating, of a special Government Department to provide for the care and education of returned soldiers . A Bill to plaoo additional taxes on munitions profiteering. A Bill to grant the suffrage-to women upon the same terms as men. . A Daylight Saving Bill The establishing of a Canadian War Mission to the United States, in order to co-operate with the authorities at Washington in common war measures. A measure providing' for the suppression of the import and manufacture of alcoholic liquors. A Bill providing for the registration of the entire man-power and womanpower of the country, with the ,object of utilising labour for essential industries and agriculture.
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Hokitika Guardian, 20 March 1918, Page 4
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