On Tuesday Mr. Borden, the Canadian Premier, spoke of the
performances and hopes of his Ministry. He declared that for the present the Imperial Defence Committee, which had welcomed Canadian Ministers to its meetings, was the best medium for consultation and co-operation between the Dominions and the Home Government in questions of both Imperial defence and foreign policy. He did not, however, look upon this as a final solution. "The genius of our race is to proceed in such matters slowly and cautiously, and to depend for results rather upon experiment and experience than upon logic." But he added that ultimately " a British subject living in this Dominion must have as potent a voice in the government and guidance of this world-wide Empire as the British subject living in the United Kingdom." Turn- ing to the defeat of his naval proposals, Mr. Borden said that be had every confidence that the defeat was but tem- porary, and that the duty of Canada "will yet be honourably discharged."
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