CANADIAN TREATY.

Manawatu Standard, Volume LV, Issue 303, 20 November 1935, Page 7

CANADIAN TREATY.

FAVOURABLE RECEPTION

OTTAWA, Nov. 18

Canadian producers, like American ones across the border, were preoccupied to-day in studying the reciprocal trade treaty to determine just how' much individually and collectively they w'ill gain or lose through the new schedule rates.

The general Canadian reaction appeared favourable to the treaty, although Conservative newspapers indicated that a minority of the party might attempt to block ratification by Parliament. Such action is considered as only a forlorn hope, however, with the preponderant/ ‘Liberal majority. The maritime provinces and Western Canada, with their large agricultural, fishing, and lumber interests, are expected strongly to support the treaty, while formidable opposition, if it develops, wdll probably come from manufacturing centres in Quebec and Ontario. Producers of finished goods are not universally against the treaty, however. For example, Mr Ross iucMaster president of the Steel Company of Canada, declared: “The objectives of the treaty find general acceptance. The interests of our primary producers are all-important.” The Conservative Toronto Mail and j Empire declares that the treaty “endangers some major Canadian industries.” On the other hand, the Montreal Gazette, generally considered the organ of important financial and business circles, in general approves the treaty. “It will undoubtedly bo materially helpful to this country,” it says.