CANADIAN ELECTIONS.
OPPOSITION PLATFORM. By Telegraph—Press Association—CopyrteW Ottawa, August 15. The Conservative platform has been issued for the coming elections. Its main planks are:— Reform of public expenditure and removal of present extravagances; Granting the right over natural resources to the prairie provinces; Construction of the Hudson Bay railway, its operation to bo under an independent commission; Encouragement of tho chilled meat industry; ■ Establishment of a permanent Tariff Commission; Liberal grants for improvement of agriculture; To maintain the independence of the Canadian Parliament in its own affairs, but eeeking to find tho highest ideal in tho autonomous development of. Canada as a nation within the Empire.
THE CAMPAIGN OPENS.' (Rec. August 17, 0.25 a.m.) Ottawa, August 111. Tho Prime. Minister, Sir Wilfrid Lnurier, in opening tho election campaign, ridiculed as beneath contempt tho talk of annexation by tho United States. If returned to power ho would call tho House to meet immediately with a view to ratifying tho Reciprocity agreement.
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Dominion, Volume 4, Issue 1208, 17 August 1911, Page 5
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160CANADIAN ELECTIONS. Dominion, Volume 4, Issue 1208, 17 August 1911, Page 5
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