CANADIAN TRADE

Hokitika Guardian, 14 January 1932, Page 2

CANADIAN TRADE

AN INDEPENDENT STAND.

LIBERAL LEADER’S WARNING

.United press Association —By Electric Telegraph.—Copyright.)

WINNIPEG, January! 12.

Declaring the Government of Canada’s fiscal policy is so economically nationalistic that it is strangling trade, Air McKenzie King (Leader ot the Liberal Oppositon in the Dominion House of Commons) told the Canadian Club that economic imperialism was wrong. “What the country needs’,’ he said ’“is a riddance of the war mentality, which finds no motive for trade except strife, in favour of frank, businesslike agreements. Mr Bennett is making much ot the wheat quota pioposal. If it is sound, wily did he oppose it at the last Imperial Conference?” He added that the question of the quota would .have to be considered on its merits at Ottawa in June on the resumption of the conference'. OTTAWA, Jan, 12.

Referring to the coming Empire Economic Conference here, the IU. Hon. Air AlacKeuxie King, the Federal Liberal Leader, in an address at Alanitoba on Tuesday, criticise' 4 the fiscal and trado policies of the Dominion Government. He a s sertec. that the Prime Minister. Mr Bennett, must modify his attitude <>» tariff matters, and must change his motto of “Canada First,” and must adopt a more conciliatory attitude u the next conference meeting was not to he the fiasco which the last conference at London wa s . Air MacKenzie King asserted that the Liberal Party wished tile Ottawa. Economic Conference to' be a successConsequently they wished to see the “narrow spirit of either petty or blustering bargaining” abandoned. He asked the Conservative members ot Parliament to turn their attention to securing modification of then Government's extreme position on the matter of the tariff to that the Ottawa, conference would be a success. Air AlacKenzie King indicated that the effort of the Liberals, when they were returned to power, would be to Brinir down the Canadian tariffs, to the same level as that prevailing prior to the last change of Govern--111 Dealing with the proposed British wheat quota, he asked why Canada had been denied such a quota for the past two years.