CANADIAN LIQUOR
EXPORTS TO TJ.S.A. OTTAWA, Feb. 17. Tn the House of Commons yesterday a bill, introduced by Colonel Robinson, Conservative, to repeal the legislation passed in 1930 which banned liquor exports to the United States was defeated by 100 votes to 44. About equal numbers of Conservatives (including two Ministers) and Liberals supported the bill. Their spokesmen argued that its passage was justifiable in the light of the decisive verdict of the recent Presidential election against prohibition, and that it would not only incroaso employment in Canada but givo the Treasury some millions of levenuo now being lost. Mr. Bennett, the Prime Minister, who opposed the bill, said that it was a principle of international law, as hvell as of no i glib oil in css, and no country should provide the opportunity for its own citizens to break the laws of another, and that, so long 'as the United States remained “dry/.' Canada could not legalise oxports of liquor. However, as soon as tho United States repealed its proj hihition laws, the ban .would auto- ! matically become ineffective. Mr. Mackenzie King, Leader of the ; Opposition, took a similar view, and tho weight of opinion was strongly ! against repeal,
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LX, Issue 18065, 17 April 1933, Page 9
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200CANADIAN LIQUOR Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LX, Issue 18065, 17 April 1933, Page 9
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