17 APRIL 1926, Page 12

I cannot believe that anyone will take seriously the statement

of a leading Canadian industrialist that Canada is handicapped in Great Britain by the lack of titled Cana- dians. There is practical unanimity in Canada concerning the granting of hereditary titles. No political party would advocate it. So far as the granting of knighthoods is concerned, or life-time titles, the matter is somewhat different, but I do not believe that the old practice of granting titles will . ever be reintroduced. ' If peerages were to be conferred to-morrow on a dozen of the leading Canadians over here, does anyone believe that their utility to their native land would be increased ?