CANADIAN POLITICS

Stratford Evening Post, Volume I, Issue 80, 13 March 1931, Page 5

CANADIAN POLITICS

PARLIAMENT OPENS SPEECH FROM THRONE PROPOSED LEGISLATION TARIFF REVISION MEASURES Press Association. —Copyright. (Reed. 1 p.m.) OTTAWA, March 12. Legislation for the creation of a tariff board for amendments to tariff Bills, making for more effective control of the national finance, for revision of the existing provisions, for Government purchases, amending the Naturalisation Act and altering the Copyright Act, will be introduced during the coming session. The Speech from the Throne was read at the opening of Parliament on Thursday by the Administrator, the Rt. Hon, Lyman. S. Duff, Acting Chief Justice of Canada, in the absence of the Governor-General. Thus a Canadian for the first time performed the opening ceremonies. The readiness of the Government to render whatever assistance may be deemed advisable respecting the wheat crops declared. “The present situation has emphasised the necessity for effecting a reduction in the costs of production and tne marketing of the wheat crop and of providing a more stable market,” was a statement in the speech. Measures respecting old age pensions, agriculture, technical education, highway constructions, will be brought down. Dealing with economic matters, life speech says the tariff legislation passed during the emergency session of Parliament has resulted in a marked improvement to established industries, in addition to causing many others which formerly were exporters to Canada to become producers in Canada.