IMPERIAL PREFERENCE MEETING.
SPEECH BY LORD SELBORNE. LONDON, Bth April. Lord Selborne, in a speech at an Im- ! perial preference meeting, referred to the Reciprocity Agreement, and declared that according to the mcst-fa.voured-nation clauses in British tariff treaties twelve countries were entitled to receive from Canada the same treatment as that which it was proposed should be conceded to America. Tho United States would doubtless be surprised if it had to shaie the concessions with twelve other countries. Canada, might ask Great Britain to denounce the treatieG. He believed that a remedy for the difficulty lay in the suggestion by Me. Deakin at tho Imperial Conference of 1907, namely, a joint system of Imperial negotiation in the arranging of foreign treaties. [Mr. Deakin moved at ths Imperial Conference of 1907 :— 'That the Imperial Government be requested to prepare for the information of colonial Governments statements showing the privileges conferred, and the obligations imposed, oa the colonies by existing commercial treaties, and that enquiries be instituted to ascertain' how far it is possible to make those obligations and benefit uniform throughout the Empire."]
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Evening Post, Volume LXXXI, Issue 84, 10 April 1911, Page 7
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182IMPERIAL PREFERENCE MEETING. Evening Post, Volume LXXXI, Issue 84, 10 April 1911, Page 7
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