CANADA

New Zealand Tablet, 2 March 1916, Page 55

CANADA

, CATHOLIC LOYALTY. - Speaking at a meeting in Laval University, in aid of the military' hospital of that institution, his Grace the Most Kev. Dr. Bruchesi, Archbishop of Quebec, spoke as follows about the war and the attitude of Canadian Catholics relative thereto: —‘ As Canada is a part of the British Empire, it is the sacred duty of the Canadian people to assist Great Britain in her heroic defence of liberty. This position was taken up by the Episcopacy of French Canada at the outbreak of the war, and this attitude our Bishops still maintain, and will continue to maintain to the very end. The i obligations we owe to the British Crown are sacred obligations. It is the solemn duty of every Canadian citizen to the utmost limit of his force to stand side by side with the Motherland in a heroic effort to crush the tyrant who wishes to trample small nations and States beneath his iron heel. What fate would be ours if the Germans obtained a foothold here? . Were Great- Britain defeated Germany would dominate the St. Lawrence. French-Canadian countrymen, I, for one, do not want to be a German citizen.