“QUITE IMPRACTICABLE”
AMERY VIEW OF EMPIRE FREE TRADE CANADA AND PREFERENCE (Australian and N.Z. Press Association) (United Service) QUEBEC, Saturday. The former Secretary of State for the Dominions in Britain, Mr. L. S. Amery, was a passenger by the Empress of Australia, which arrived today at Quebec. He said Empire free trade was an ideal, but it was quite impracticable. He was absolutely in favour of closer commercial relations between the constituent parts of the Empire. Nevertheless, he felt that the slogan of free trade would not accomplish the purpose desired. In the Old Country, for example, they could not tax wheat in order to give Canada preference, and it was conceivable that Canada, in various ways, might not find it convenient to reduce her taxation on one purely British product- Each commodity must be considered by itself. Preference could be arranged for Canadian wheat, perhaps, by subsidy or decreased freight rates, but it could not be of a nature that would increase the cost of living in Britain.
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Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 739, 12 August 1929, Page 9
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