CANADA’S BUDGET DEBATE

Taranaki Daily News, 8 May 1930, Page 9

CANADA’S BUDGET DEBATE

AMENDMENT BY CONSERVATIVES. ELECTION AS EARLY AS POSSIBLE. ! .8; Tulegra.plj—Press Assn.—Copyright. Ottawa, May 6. The Conservative leader, Mr. Bennett, to-day moyed a Budget amendment declaring “that while the House welcomes and approves e ery measure that will afford Canadian agriculture, industry and labour equal opportunity for fair competition in the development of the rich, varied and natural resources of the Dominion and provide for an extension of inter-Empire trade by mutually advantageous preferences with due regard-to the interests of consumers, it is of the opinion that the proposals submitted by the Minister of Finance are in several important respects so completely at variance with the policies the Government has heretofore declared that the administration, having lost the confidence of the country, cannot safely be entrusted with the direction of the fiscal policy of Canada noy of carrying into effect proposals to which it heretofore had been opposed, and which arc deceptive and fail to es -mate the financial results of their operations, and which had created distrust of and contempt for representative institutions." The Premier, Mr, Mackenzie King, announced that a general election would be held this year at the earliest possible nioment. He suggested that Mr. Bennett should meet to arrange that the business of the session should be brought ‘•to an orderly end speedy conidnsion.”