TRADE POLICY

Wairarapa Times-Age, 3 September 1943, Page 4

TRADE POLICY

AND .SAFEGUARDS OF PEACE CANADIAN POST-WAR PLANS OUTLINED BY PARLIAMENTARY SECRETARY. (By Telegraph—Press Association— Copyright) (Received This Day, 12.15 p.m) NEW YORK, September 2. Mr Brooke Claxton, Parliamentary Under-Secretary to the Canadian Prime Minister, at a Press conference today outlined points in the Canadian foreign policy which hitherto have been unknown either to the Canadian public or to the rest of the world, says the “New York Times.” He said: “The Canadians wish to join the Pan-American union and wish to co-operate with the United States in the defence of the American continent, but they prefer the inclusion of Britain as an outpost of the American defences.” He added: “Canada will not return the trade restrictions after the war unless the United States again imposes high tariffs. Canada prefers the widest possible international trade to the reinstatement of the Ottawa agreements after the war.” Mr Claxton emphasised that Canada would like to see a British-American-Soviet post-war agreement, and added that unless the three ■ Great Powers work together, one group will attempt to set up Germany again as a buffer State, with policies equivalent to appeasement and isolation all over again. Before the war, Mr Claxton pointed out, Canada sold more to Britain than she bought from her. Canada bougnt more from the United States than she sold. Now Canada buys twice as much from the United States and pays cash for it. Canada is supplying Britain, without payment, twice as much as she used to sell to Britain. Canada 'has more than doubled her national income since the war, and has reduced her external debt by more than 1,000 million dollars. Canada has become the largest per capita food producer of the United Nations. Although she has become highly industrialised, Canada will not compete with Britain’s specialised exports a.mr the war.