CANADIAN ELECTIONS

Greymouth Evening Star, 18 June 1930, Page 12

CANADIAN ELECTIONS

PREMIER’S POLICY SPEECH. [BY CABLE —PBESS ASSN. —COPYBIGHT.] VANCOUVER, June 16. Speaking at Brantford (in Ontario), the Premier. Mr M. McKenzie King, in a keynote speech for the Liberal campaign, said that the record of the Government’s budget and Canada’s representation at the Imperial and Economic Conferences ■would be the major issues at the coming Federal election. He declared that the people would be called on to decide whether or not they believed in a policy of “blasting theii’ way to trade,” or if they preferred the viewpoint that trade was an exchange for mutual advantage; and that it “is-se-cured not by ill-will, but by goodwill.” He dealt with the record of the Government in respect to finance and taxation, natural resources, -war veterans, labour, immigration, and the important provisions of the Budget. Taking issue with the Conservative leader, Mr Bennett, the Premier, declared that there was a fundamental difference between the Liberal and the Conservative conception of the nature of trade. The Conservatives had enunciated the belief that trade was war. On that assumption they spoke, and they declared that they were prepared to act on that policy. British preference was a Liberal policy, and the Liberal Party believed in conciliation —in the fact that trade was exchange, and, if possible, should be mutually beneficial to all of the countries in the exchange.