CANADIAN POLITICS.
CONSERVATIVE PLATFORM. By Cable—Press Association—Copyright. Ottawa, August 15. The Conservative platform for the coming election has been issued, and contains as its main planks, reform in public expenditure, removal of the present extravagances, granting the right over natural resources to the prairie provinces, the construction of the Hudson Bay railway, the operation of which is to be under an independent commission, the encouragement of the chilled meat industry, the establishment of n permanent tariff commission, liberal grants for improvement in agriculture, to maintain the independency of the Canadian Parliament in its own affairs, but to seek to find the highest ideal in the autonomous development of Canada as a nation within the Empire.
RECIPROCITY AGREEMENT. Received 17, 12.30 a.m. Ottawa August 17. Sir W. Laurier, in opening the election campaign, ridiculed as beneath contempt the talk of the annexation of Canada by the United States. If returned to power he would call the House to meet immediately, with a view of ratifying the reciprocity treaty.
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Taranaki Daily News, Volume LIV, Issue 47, 17 August 1911, Page 5
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167CANADIAN POLITICS. Taranaki Daily News, Volume LIV, Issue 47, 17 August 1911, Page 5
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