LOCAL NAVIES.
I I CONDEMNED BY A CANADIAN LEADER.' liiy Told£rapb-Pre*i, Atuoclatlon-Oopyrleuu ' Ottawa, November 10. Mr. F, D. Monk, Leader of the Quebec Conservatives, in a!speech at.L&ouine, near Hunt* real, Said Sir. Wilfrid Laurier's naval policy (providing for the construction of three second* class cruisers and four destroyors) ought to be submitted ia th'o electors before being presented to Parliament. : , The construction of a navy, he declared, was beyond Canada's resources, and a local'navy would be useless for assisting to maintain the Motherland's supremacy at sea. He was ftvorso to Canada Mixing with European militarism and generals. Canada's advance—indeed, her very, existence—was, said Mr. Mooro, dependent on worb of expansion and development
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Dominion, Volume 3, Issue 662, 12 November 1909, Page 7
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