PREFERENTIAL TRADE.
CANADIAN MINISTER'S IDEAS. Received 10, 12.15 a.m. OTTAWA, December 9. Mr Sifton, Minister for the Interior, addressing the Canadian Club at Ottawa, said preference on grain would benefit Canada considerably. Britain would certainly ask some equivalent, but until Mr Chamberlain's policy was endorsed and the proposals were made they would be unable to know whether Canada could agree to that equivalent. Canada would not agree to stop her manufact\iring development. Her proposals for a colonial conference still >stood, and if Britain agreed thereto the bargain would be struck. Canada did not require to be bribed into loyalty, and in any bargain, made she ought to give as much as she would get. He, favored the consideration of a scheme for the selfgoverning colonies, banded together for mutual protection, and with increased rather than diminished local autonomy. Canada should contribute towards , the maintenance of the British Navy. He favored the adoption of the Swiss military scheme.
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Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume XLVI, Issue 7854, 10 December 1903, Page 2
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