IMPERIAL UNITY.
Received February'l4, 8.3 a.m. ■gg OTTAWA, February 13. Colonel Hughes moved a resolution in the Dominion House of Commons advocating a full partnership union between Britain and the colonies. He favoured one Imperial Parliament, with representatives from every part of the Empire. The British and Colonial Parliaments could continue to deal with home affairs. Sir Wilfrid Laurier said that legislative independence had proved the closest bond of union between the Motherland and the colonies. There could be T no grand Imperial union except with absolute freetrade between the component States. Canada had no grievance regarding her relations with the Mother Country. Sir P. W. Borden, Minister of Defenee, said it was unnecessary for Imperial federation to be based on Imperial freetrade. Many thought the Empire would be bound closer by preferene. He believed that closer relations would be secured jjby the process of growth and development. Mr Hughes withdrew his motion. The Hon. W. S. Fielding, Canadian Minister of Finance, proposes a hundred and twenty fresh changes in the Canadian tariff, including several in tfye iron and steel schedules, benefiting British producers.
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Wairarapa Age, Volume XXIX, Issue 8359, 15 February 1907, Page 5
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184IMPERIAL UNITY. Wairarapa Age, Volume XXIX, Issue 8359, 15 February 1907, Page 5
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