CANADA FOR CANADIANS

Hokitika Guardian, 2 October 1931, Page 6

CANADA FOR CANADIANS

NATIVE SONS ADOPT ORDER OF MERIT. DOMINION-BORN GOVERNORS WANTED. VANCOUVER. August 28. Native sons of Canada in convention have decided to establish a national order of merit, which they will confer upon prominent Canadians. The order will have no connection with knighthood or titles.

The convention decided to petition the Canadian Government “That in the event of all future appointments to the office of Governor-General ol Canada, the name of a Canadian be submitted to His Majesty the King for the appointment.”

Preference should be given to natives of Canada in a variety of positions in the public service of the country and on the stall's of public utilities, according to resolutions, passed by the convention.

A pica was addressed by the convention to the Dominion Government urging that only natives of Canada be appointed to positions of an executive or advisory character, and to the Senate. Federal, provincial and “municipal governments -were asked to require “employment of native Canadians in public or semi-public institutions.” The convention expressed its opposition to a proposal to amend thu Canadian Nationals Act. which would reduce the period of residence required of British subjects not born in Canada from live to two years to attain Canadian domicile. A recommendation to the Dominion Government, approved hv the native •sons, suggested, “That all appeals to the Privy Council iq England be disallowed, and that a Supreme C'ourtj a court of final appeal, be established in Canada to adjudicate in such cases as have heretofore been submitted to the English Court.”