EARL GREY ON CANADA.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXI, Issue 61, 26 October 1911, Page 5

EARL GREY ON CANADA.

HER GREAT DESTINY. London, October 2-5. Earl Grey, ex-Governor-General of Canada, was banqnetted at the Colonial Institute. Sir E. Harcourt presided. Earl Grey, in responding, said that, witli the exception of an occasional crank, it was impossible to find an annexationist throughout Canada, which was destined to become the strongest part of tiio Empire before the close of the present century. The Laurier policy was to find an extended market in America and was in no sense a policy of disloyalty to closer connection with the Mother. Land. People who scented a possible danger to their independence outvoted the policy, which was, however, advantageous to their material interests. No fact was so clear as the determination of Canada to work out her salvation under the Union Jack. ./ Continuing, Earl Grey said it was the magnetic clutch of a common ideal, with like interests and aspirations, that kept the Empire indivisablc, but the interests of the Empire would need before long some form of organic union to prevent the magnetic clutch weakening. Ho urged the bringing of the overseas dominions closer by cheapened transportation and lower cable rates.