CANADIAN-AMERICAN RELATIONS.

Otago Daily Times, Issue 21020, 8 May 1930, Page 15

CANADIAN-AMERICAN RELATIONS.

(From *Odb Own Correspondent.) . VANCOUVER, April 2. Relations between Canada and the United States are not very harmonious just now. In fact, one would have to recall i pre-war days to find the harmony level as low as at present. President Hoover is feeling grave apprehension about Canadian friendship, according to despatches from Washington last end,There is a certain grim humour to the nets of the House of Commons at Ottawa and the Senate at Washington «n the same day of last week. The one f^“ con - d rea ding. with a solitary dissenting voice, to a Biil f to prohibit export + 6 j ra , n j e k? vessels carrying liquors intended for the United States, thereby surrendering 15.000 000 dollars’ worth of ex- ;, c uty > ae , w eil as 30,000,000 dollars fn distillery trade each year. The other imposed a duty on lumber which will deoftradf 13 !? ° f 10 ’ 00 » dollars’ worth ffw e " • was 38 Canada had proftn ?n« a Sam > iaviting him lin- Vhleh h . e dl £* “Heads, I Wl m’ .us, you lose.’ tbe Bitu ation impartially and the S y fh„T e mU . St make allowance for the whAIP of Congress have the 4*l?/!+ ° f { th eir time taken up with tne 48 States of the Union, and have little selves j? c - lina H on to Post them-P-mfV th ? affa irs of other countries Vl f lfc Washington or tour the States marvel at the lack of knowinnn 0, ther - e Canadian affairs. This by the press/as well as public men. A recent expression " the the knowledge Americans have about Canada with the illustrious exception of ° f ** nearest Canadia “ n er f .. Sm c a A section of the press of States, headed by the New suirited e ff peC r S Canada to make a tariff thfi self-reliant reply to the new l a ™. whloh - m the shape left by the Senate means a loss of 175,000,000 dollars inJ e pnivid^ anada ' • Such reply > interpret“admn opinion at the moment of writmg, would be expressed in the form tL °v ff r e^ ng , trade of that value to bins and the sister domin- !° DS - Tbose w ho have expressed the fear at one time or another that Canada was giving too mucji trade to her neighbour t? the detriment of her Empire l aS’ flon 8 ’ S ke ' heW r from the determinaeaeb’ In v ?J ume and momentum each day among all political parties in EmidS' a° BXp olt the jest of the British itmpire ae a means of absorbing Canadian products, with a quid pro quo in here and in the United State 8 P just now. They include the canalisation of the St. Lawrence-Great Lakes waterway, to cost approximately 160,000,000 dollars : the reorganisation of the International Joint Commission, which has jurisdiction over border disputes on land and water; appointment of a new American Minister to Canada to mcceed Hon. William Phillip?, recently retired for family reasonslegislation to prevent smuggling; and the proposal, now embodied in a Bill to Congress, to place an armed liquor patrol torce on the border, in contravention of the Rush-Bagot treaty, signed 100 years ago; and a treaty, now under negotiation, at the instance of Canada, to permit the restocking of the Fraser River with salmon. In relation to the self-imposed Canadian embargo on liquor shipments, to the United States, the Wr hington Government regards this as a very friendly vstep which will definitely assist the adminis■tration of the Volstead Law, Reeentment in Canada, which mainly concerns the Senates tariff Acts, has led to much criticism of the liquor embargo, which has been roundly condemned as having been dictated by the United States. Delicate situations have already arisen; more will arise, and amicable, settlement will depend on the rapidity with which Canada finds treatment and cure for the wounds inflicted on her trade by American politicians. One gleam of nope Canada sees is in President Hoover, who does not approve of much of the tan T-building of the Senate. The balance of the year 1930 will see events that will assure Canada’s sister dominions that, although Jack Canuck, in the words of a notable Punch cartoon, is now working the farm tor himself, .he is still a member of the family.