SPLIT IN CANADA

Evening Post, Volume CXIII, Issue 11, 14 January 1932, Page 11

SPLIT IN CANADA

LIBERAL POLICY STATED

REDUCTION OF TARIFFS

, OTTAWA, 12th January.Referring to the coming Empire Economic Conference here, Mr. Mackenzie King, Federal Liberal Leader, in an address at Manitoba on Tuesday criticised the fiscal and trade policies of the Dominion Government. ;

He asserted that the Prime Minister, Mr. R.B. Bennett, 1 must modify his attitude on. tariff: matters, change his "Canada First policy, and adopt; a more conciliatory tone if the next meeting is not to be the fiasco that the last one was. '! '■;■'.•" . : '

\- He asserted that the Liberal Party wished the conference to be a success, consequently they wished to, see the | 'narrow spirit;' of either petty Clustering or petty bargaining" abandoned. ■■''■ He asked the Conservative members of Parliament Ito turn their attention to securing a modification of the Government's extreme position' on the matter of tariffs, so' the conference would be a success. ! : ■

,-Mr. King indicated that the effort-'of the Liberals, when returned: to power, would be to bring down.."tariffs to the level prevailing before the change of Government. " ' . ,--.'■■

Dealing with the proposed wheat quota he asked why, Canada had been denied it for two years. It was proposed at the 1930 Conference and the British Government had been prepared to consider it favourably. Then th 6 great opportunity had been lost for twb years. .-.-■" ." ■' ' : '.''• ■•■ . :

He warned the public against the substitution of the cry 'of . "Empire first" for that of « Canada first." Canada, he said, must decline to 'become a subsidiary unit of an Imperial company. "Our trading relations," he added, "must be organised on a world-wide basis." .-■;-. ..:.■■■-