CANADA'S NAVAL SCHEME.
UNSUCCESSFUL ' OPPOSITION. By Telegraph.— Association.— Ottawa, November 14. Mr. F. D. MoN&i Opposition Leader for the Province of 1 Quebec, in the Dominion House of . Commons, has only, five adherents in. his opposition to Sir Wilfrid Laurier's naval policy. T, . Mr. Monk's contention was that Sir Wilfrid • Laurier's naval -policy (providing for the . construction of " three second-class cruisers and four destroyers) ought to have been submitted to the electors before being presented" to Parliament. The construction of; a.navy, he declared in a speech the other day, was beyond Canada's resources, and a local - navy would ... be, useless • for assisting to maintain the Motherland's supremacy at sea. Canada's advance—indeed, her very existencewas, ho'-' said, dependent on works of expansion . and development. , *
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New Zealand Herald, Volume XLVI, Issue 14219, 16 November 1909, Page 5
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