DOMINION AUTONOMY

Hokitika Guardian, 5 February 1927, Page 2

DOMINION AUTONOMY

OTTAWA. Fell. 3. In a speech at Toronto, the Premier of Canada. Air AlueKonzie King, said: “While it may be in one sense true that, in respect to the constitutional position of Britain and the Dominions, the Imperial Conference established nothing new. it is equally true that it has given a wholly new force and meaning to the established [josition. That position now carries with it the imprimatur of an Impend Conference voicing, in one note of common agreement, tho opinion of all parts of the/ British Empire as to the; basic principles on which the Empire rested.” Ihe Premier said that he would reserve for discussion in Parliament wheL he had to say on the subject of defence. Referring further to the Imperial Conference, Air AlncKenzie King said: “We believed before we left for England that Canada was a self-governing community within the British Empire, enjoying complete autonomy and in no way subordinate to the other parts of the Empire with respect to our own domestic and our external affairs. We believed that in these matters of parliametn of Canada was supreme. We had. therefore, no question to raise on this store, hut other parts of the Empire which have more recently been organised as self-governing Dominions than v-. ourselves, may not have felt aqually secure in the matter of their status.”