CANADIAN POLICY

Evening Post, Volume CXI, Issue 35, 10 February 1926, Page 9

CANADIAN POLICY

TREATY WITH AUSTRALIA

CRITICISED IN PARLIAMENT "DUMPING GEOUND" FOB DAIRY vtflifeSis6% PRODUCE, >>py;!,^/-aii;: , . 'y*\ojilPP" '■ (United Press Association-Copyright.) (Reuter'a Telegram.) OTTAWA, Bth February. The" following Conservative amendment to the Address from the Throne was moved in the House of Commons by Mr. Donald Sutherland, member for South Oxford: "We desire to express regret that, resulting from the policy of the recent trade agreement by the present Government, the dairy products industry, of Canada has been subjected to most unfair and unwarrantable competition from other countries, and that the Speech from the Throne gives no indication of remedial legislation which. would remove the discrimination under which the industry suffers."

Mr. Sutherland claimed that the interest of the farming industry had been sacrificed through the Australian treaty, that there was scarcely a city or town in Canada in which Australian or New Zealand butter or cheese was not on sale. Mr. Sutherland expressed resentment against any effort to make Canada the "dumping ground" of countries with a high protective tariff. In his opinion it was time to give notice of the termination of the treaty. EFFECT MINIMISED. Mr. J. A. Robb, Acting Minister of Trade and Commerce, said: "I will* admit that the treaty with Australia if not all I desire, but it takes two to make a bargain." He did not believe that prices of dairy products were affected by such isolated influences as Australian exportation. The butter coming from Australia did not average one-third of an ounce per head of Canada's population. As for eggs, Mr. Eobb suggested that Australia coul'l never compete with Canadian farmeis in the fresh egg market, because the Australian egg was seven weeks old when it reached Montreal, "and he said, "they don't buy that kino of fresh' egg in ' Montreal." The balance of trade for many years was in favour of Canada. Mr. Eobb said that for the twleve months ended December, 1925, the imports from Australia amounted to 2,271,216 dollars, while Canada's exports to Australia totalled 14,075,216 dollars. . <