http://dx.doi.org/10.14288/1.0373738
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contributor: Blakemore, William
issued: 2017-03-21
issued: 1913-07-05
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note: The Week ii British Columbia Newspaper and Review. Vol. XI, No. 20-Eleventh Year Victoria, B.C., Canada, July 5, 1913 5c. a copy, $2.00 a year Canada's Naval Policy NOW that matters have cooled down a bit and it is certain that there will bo no general election for the next two yenrs, it may be well to review briefly the effect of the defeat of I Mr. Borden's naval resolutions, and also to canvass the reasons why no appeal is to be made to the constituencies on the subject. Mr. Borden put up a good fight, but lie was foredoomed to failure from the start, nnd even at this short distance of time it is possible to see more clearly than in the dust and turmoil of the.battle why his I efforts were neutralized by the determined attitude of tlie Senate. Che truth of the matter is that the Senate not merely carried out, I the wishes of the Liberal lender, but knew that in doing so it was acting in accordance with tlie honest opinion of so "large a number I of Canadians as to leave it uncertain whether that number would not constitute a majority. Outside of British Columbia there is no I enthusiasm in Canada for a naval policy which involves the expenditure of money. Tlie Maritime Provinces are mildly in favour of such a project, because they would benefit locally, both by the establish- menf of ship-building works and tlie probable location of a fleet unit on their coasts. Quebec is avowedly antagonistic, and in tlie opinion ] of the best authorities an appeal to the constituencies in that Province would leave Mr. Borden witli not more than three followers. .1 limping fur a moment to the Prairie Provinces, the result would be nt least problematical. There would lie a large adverse vote made up of lower European nationalities, who take no interest in Canadian affairs beyond extracting the maximum of wealth from her soil, nnd American immigrants whose ideas are alien to British supremacy and who are as firmly convinced that Canada's salvation in military and naval affairs is …
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