EYES ARE ON CANADA FOR NEW TRADE MOVE

Sun (Auckland), Volume IV, Issue 1038, 31 July 1930, Page 11

EYES ARE ON CANADA FOR NEW TRADE MOVE

GOVERNMENT’S MAJORITY BLOW TO EMPIRE TRADE United P.A.—By Telegraph—Copyright Rccd. 10.5 a.m. OTTAWA, Wed. As a result of the general election in Canada, the Conservatives will have a majority of 31 over all the other parties in the House of Commons. The final returns show that the 245 seats are distributed as shown in the following table, the state of parties at the dissolution being also shown: New At House Dissolution. Conservatives . . . 138 90 Liberals 87 123 United Farmers of Alberta .... 10 11 Liberal-Progressives 3 9 Progressives, Labour, and Independents 7 12 The representatives of the Progressives, Labour members, and Independents in the new Parliament total two, three, and two respectively. INTEREST IN BRITAIN A message from London says keen interest was taken there in the Canadian elections, with a view to their effect upon the British tariff controversy. The “Morning Post” says the result may come as a blow to Lord Beaverbrook, sinfce it enforces the warning that Empire free trado is unlikely to be acceptable to Canada. “The Times” says it is impossible yet to say to what extent the tariff controversy will be affected by the result of the election. BLOW TO BEAVERBROOK A New York dispatch says the “New York Times” in a leading article on the Canadian election says: “For Americans the chief importance of the election lies in the fact that the Dominion is going back not only to the Conservative Party, but to protective duties aimed particularly at the United States.” The “New York Herald Tribune” says: “One of the most interesting things will be the effect of the election upon Empire free trade. The Conservatives have advocated mutual tariff concessions within the Empire, but this falls far short of the Liberals’ adoption of Lord Beaverbrook’s philosophy. With economic nationalism so powerful a weapon in the hands of the Dominion’s political leaders hopes for the creation of a great economic, unit out of the Empire certainly have hot been brightened by the election. ' “On the other hand, the Conservative’s policy of tariff reduction as a matter of quid pro quo bargaining, leaves the door open for some progress at the Imperial Conference.” TRADE WITH U.S.A. Iu the United States representatives of the Republican Party say they believe the Conservatives’ victory in Canada was the result of the enactment of tariff legislation operative against all countries alike, with the abandonment of the temporary law giving preference to Empire imports. Mr. J. E. Watson, Republican mem her of the Senate for Indiana, expressed the opinion today that the Conservatives’ victory was in favour of trade relations between the United States and Canada as the leaders .of that party had shown a disposition to encourage friendly relations with the United States. He said he expected the Canadian Conservatives would draw up a tariff law to which the United States could not object as being retaliatory.