PROGRAMME OF REFORM

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXII, Issue 18595, 4 January 1935, Page 7

PROGRAMME OF REFORM

CANADIAN GOVERNMENT ELECTION CAMPAIGN OTTAWA, .Tan. 2. Ringing up the curtain of the general election campaign, the Prime Minister, Air. R. B. Bennett, to-day announced that the Government would go to tho people on a programme of reform, which, he believed, would bring prosperity, and security against future depressions. The time had come to change the economic system. “In my mind,” he said, ‘‘reforms mean Government intervention, control and regulation to end laissez faire. Reform Jeralds certain recovery. There can be no permanent recovery without reform. I raise the issue squarely and nail the flag of progress to the masthead. I will summon the power of the State to its support. If we cannot abolish the dole we should abolish the system. “Since taking office the Government’s policies have been determined }>y the critical nature of the circumstances. We had first to save the ship and then guide it into less troubled wators.- The economic system will bo examined without prejudice. of. any sort. We neither hate nor love- it; if it has failed we must change iti” Mr. Bennett said there was ample time for the electorate to study the proposals, which would be outlined specifically in later addresses. Rumor places the probable election date at any time from April to October with the later date probable.