Canada and the Imperial Conference.

CONFERENCES & conventions; INTERNATIONAL cooperation; EMIGRATION & immigration; KING, William Lyon Mackenzie, 1874-1950; INTERNATIONAL law; TAXATION; WAR; POLITICAL parties

CANADAReport Available; UNITED KingdomReport Available

Comments on the significance of the Imperial Conference to Canada. Increase in the number of fervid supporters of a creed of nationalist isolation in Canada; Burden of a legacy of debt and taxation which has halted material development and checked the flow of immigration necessary for the profitable and efficient use of the huge physical plant acquired in the pre-war years; Regard to the British Crown and Parliament by Imperialists in Canada, as the supreme repositories of sovereignty in the Commonwealth; Similarity between the Liberal party of Canada led by Mackenzie King and the Democratic party in the United States; Information on the economic situation of Canada.