CANADA AND THE EMPIRE
EFFECT OF CONFERENCE. By Telegraph—Press Assn.— Copyright. Ottawa, Dee. 14, Opening a debate in the Dominion House of Commons, Air. Guthrie, the Conservative leader, referring to the Imperial Conference, expressed the fear that in their anxiety to make Canada master of its own destiny, members of the conference had wiped out the basis of the Chadian Confederation. They had swept aside the rights granted to minorities in that compromise agreement among the various provinces and races known as the British North America Act. He questioned whether the Dominion Government, under the Imperial Relations Committee’s report, could not wipe out Provincial Legislatures and wipe out the dual languages provision in the Federal Parliament or annul any other provisions of that Act wihch protected minorities in a country of diversified races.
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Taranaki Daily News, 16 December 1926, Page 12
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