DISSOLUTION IN CANADA.

Auckland Star, Volume LVII, Issue 157, 5 July 1926, Page 6

DISSOLUTION IN CANADA.

Camilla is to have another general election, the second in nine months. The defeat of Mr. Meighen's temporary Cabinet left no other course available to the Governor-General but to dissolve Parliament; the leaders of the two great parties hud both failed to command the confidence of the House, and there was no other avenue which could be explored. By implication Mr. \V. L. Mackenzie King censures the Ooverhor-Goncral for sending for Mr Meighcn, considering that a dissolution should have been given immediately his own Government was

defeated. There is no ground whatever for such a contention. Lord Byng acted with perfect propriety and in full accord with constitutional usage. Mr. Meighcn will score considerably in going to the country as head of the Government instead of as leader of the Opposition, but that is the fortune of war, and Mr. King should have accepted the situation with a better grace. Since the election in December. 1021, disclosed so great n landslide towards the Liberals and the allies, the Progressives, the Conservative clement has shown signs of returning strength, ns the election of October clearly proved, while events since then seem to indicate that the Liberals will have great difficulty in securing n stable majority The Progressives are weakening, but they may remain sufficiently strong in the new House to hold the balance oj [lower in which event Mr King will be compelled tv form a more definite alii ance with them than in the Parliament just dissolved He made many concessions to them on the much discussed tariff issue, but he took none of the patty into his Cabinet Mr. Meighcn will probably be in no hurry to vacate Ollice after the election, even if he limb that he is still in a minority, for Mr. King carried on from October to January with a party of 101 to the Conservatives 117. while there were 27 scats held by other parties Under the eirctim stances it seems probable that the Cabinet which Mr Meighcn is now forming- after the party has been defeated -will hold ollice for three months at all events. A turnover equal to that attained nt the last elect in: would place him definitely in power for the life of Parliament.