OF LITTLE VALUE

Hokitika Guardian, 1 November 1932, Page 5

OF LITTLE VALUE

TO CANADA OR lI.K. CRITICISM OF OTTAWA PACT. Fnsn Association—By Electric t Telegraph—Copyright.) MONTREAL,. October .30. The Liberal Party sees little of value to Canada", or to the United Kingdom in the) i Ottawa Agreement, and the Party >jwill continue to stand against it. This is the declaration in effect, made by the Federal Liberal . Lender, Mr MacKenzie King, when addressing the Reform Club here.'-" He condemned the . tariff policies upon which the Agreements were based. Mr MaeEeiyde- King said be found in the agreement a source of future irritation and bitterness as betwen the United Kingdom and Canada. He charged the Premier, Mr Bennett, with forfeiting the independence of the Canadian Parliament and he . de clared thta the Ottawa Conference had hardly begun before hard bargaining had become noticeable on all sides. The relations of the several parts of the Empire, added Mr MacKenzieKing, had not been more strained during the last hundred years than they booame while the negotiating, of the agreements was in progress, This could ■have been avoided if tho delegates had met in a proper spirit to bring about freer trade. The Ottawa Conference shopld, he said, have “set an example to the world, so that greater freedom of trade might takq place.” Agreements were ' reached, which were sought to be made binding, before those Parliaments of the Empire had had the opportunity to any op pinion, upon them.' The Conference, Mr MacKenzieKing declared; ' was “based on .the theory of bargaining, to see how each might come out the best for himself.”