OPPOSITION TACTICS

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 75, Issue 258, 1 November 1932, Page 7

OPPOSITION TACTICS

MORE OTTAWA CRITICISM CANADIAN LIBERAL LEADER Received Oct. 31, 7.5 p.m. MONTREAL, Oct. 30. The Liberal Party sees little of value either to Canada or the United Kingdom in the Ottawa agreement, and will continue to stand against it, is a declaration in effect by the Federal Liberal leader, Mr MacKenzie King, addressing the Reform Club here. He condemned the tariff policies upon which the agreements were based and found in the agreement a source of future irritation between the United Kingdom and Canada. Ho charged the Premier, Mr R. B. Bennett, with forfeiting the independence. of the Canadian Parliament, and declared that the economic conference had hardly begun before hard bargaining had become noticeable on all sides. The relations of several parts of the Empire were not more strained during the last hundred years than they became while negotiating the agreements. This could have been avoided if the delegates had met in a proper spirit to bring about freer trade. The conference should have “set an example to the world so that greater freedom of trade might take place.” Agreements were reached which were sought to be made binding before those Parliaments had an opportunity of passing an opinion upon them. The conference, Air MacKepzie King declared, was “based on the theory of bargaining to see how each might come out the best for himself.”