CANADIAN POLITICS.

Feilding Star, Volume I, Issue 191, 14 February 1907, Page 2

CANADIAN POLITICS.

» (by electric tkljsgraph — cop* bight.] [per press association.] (Received February 14, 8.47 a.m.) Ottawa, February 13. Colonel Hughes moved a resolution in the Dominion House of Commons advocating a full partnership union between Great Britain and the colonies. He favoured one Imperial Parliament, with representatives from every part of the Empire, the British and Colonial Parliaments to continue to deal with home affairs. M. de Laurier said that legislative independence had proved the closest bond of union between the Motherland and the colonies. There could be no grand imperial union, except with absolute freetrade between the component states. Canada has no grievance regarding her relations with the Motherland. Sir F. W. Borden, Minister of Defence, said it was unnecessary for imperial federation to be based on imperial freetrade. Many thought the Empire would be bound closer by preference. He believed closer relations would be secured by the process of growth and development. Colonel Hughes withdrew his motion. Mr Feilding proposes 120 fresh changes in the Canadian tariff, including several in the iron and steel schedules benefiting the British producers.