NATIONALIST ATTITUDE.
SEVERANCE FROM BRITAIN.
(Received 11.15 a.m.)
TORONTO, March G.
Mr. Henri Bourassa, Leader of the Nationalists, speaking at a banquet, said that the British people were sole and absolute masters of the Empire and therefore ought to pay for its defence without asking the colonies.
Confident in the might of the British navy the British Government persisted in maintaining its right of piracy. Canadian independence, without the link of the British Crown, but on the basis of friendly relations with Britain and France, was desirable.
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Auckland Star, Volume XLIV, Issue 57, 7 March 1913, Page 5
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