“CANADA LOYAL TO EMPIRE”

Press, Volume LXXIV, Issue 22336, 25 February 1938, Page 14

“CANADA LOYAL TO EMPIRE”

* Imperial Conference Impressions DENIAL BY VANCOUVER BUSINESSMAN ■ “If the belief gained ground in other parts of the Empire, following the Imperial Conference, that Canada would not support Great Britain in the event of trouble, it was absolutely without foundation, for the ties existing are too strong to permit of that state of affairs arising,” said Mr D. M. Robinson, a Vancouver businessman, who accompanied the Canadian bowlers to the Empire Games in Sydney, in an interview with “The Press” yesterday. The general opinion in Caiiada would be that, if such an impression was formed from the statements of the Prime Minister (Mr W. L. Mackenzie King) at the Imperial Conference, iwas entirely erroneous, Mr Robinson said. Although the Dominion was on the highest plane of amity with the United States—not a fort or a piece of armament was located on either side of the 3000 miles of boundary line —the Canadians still remained loyal to the Old Country. American influence was pronounced in Vancouver, “the most cosmopolitan city in Canada,” while Victoria, _ the capital of British Columbia, remained a typical English city. “Although they are only 80 miles apart by water, you would think you were stepping on another continent whemyou reached Victoria from Vancouver,” he remarked.