FUTURE OF CANADA
A NOTE OF ANXIETY. POSSIBLE AMERICAN ANNEXATION. Press Association —By Telegraph—Copyright. OTTAWA, February 15. During an important discussion in the House of Commons as to how Canada might end the. rush of her best _ young men and women to take up positions in the United States, Dr Manioii (formerly a Minister in the Federal Government) declared that the. conditions were so had in porno ot the Canadian cities tiiat tlu re was talk of cither breaking up the confederation of Canada or annexation by the United States. ■‘Nonsense,” interrupted Hon. James Murdock. Dr Manion insisted that the exodus to America was drawing the best people of Canada away. Ho added that _ prominent business men had informed' him that if a vote were taken on annexation in a certain section it would be carried. He said: “I am a Canadian first and last and all the time, but in some of the prairie provinces there is a widespread annexation feeling,” The Hon. James Murdock declared that the unstable tariff policy was tho banc of the country.—Sydney Sun Cable.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 19407, 17 February 1925, Page 7
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