UNALTERED POLICY

Dominion, Volume 24, Issue 148, 19 March 1931, Page 9

UNALTERED POLICY

Canada Prepares For Empire Conference RELATIONS WITH N.Z. By Telegraph—Press Association —Copyright. (Rec. March 18, 8 p.m.) Ottawa, March 17. In the course of an address in the House of Commons on Tuesday, replying to Mr. Mackenzie King, the Premier, Mr. R. B. Bennett, announced that the Canadian Government at the Imperial Economic Conference at Ottawa would not alter the course it had pursued at London. Mr. Bennett recalled his pre-election promise to enact legislation to deal with unemployment and give equal opportunity with fair competition for the Canadian. That was dealt with in part at the September session of Parliament, in part because the time was not sufficient and it was realised that disaster otherwise would result. Mr. Bennett alleged that the present conditions were due to Liberal rule. Dealing with wheat, Mr. Bennett said that Canadian wheat was not the first to fall. It was Russian wheat that went to the British market, whose free introduction spoiled the market fo.’ Canadian. The same applied to Canadian exports of lumber due to the importations from the Volga and North Russian districts. Mr. Bennett criticised the former Government for the trade agreements it had negotiated. It had made a treaty with Australia and another with Now Zealand. Today the relations between Canaria and New Zealand were strained because of that treaty. A channel of trade had been created, htne destroyed, he declared.