On Tuesday, the Dominion House of Commons discussed a motion
declaring that as soon as Great Britain favours Canadian goods, Canada will give a preference to those of Great Britain. Great Britain, said its supporters, was the natural market of the Dominion, and the arrangement would be mutually advantageous. The Free-traders ridiculed the motion, but the Government pressed for its adoption as "a message of good-will to the Mother-land," and declared their belief that " a great inter-Imperial Union " would eventually be effected "which would enable the British Empire to with-
stand the tariffs of the entire world." After this, Mr. Davies very pertinently moved an amendment that Canadian goods should be admitted free into Great Britain, British goods 'being allowed a reduced duty in Canada. This, however, was denounced as " a subterfuge," and the motion was carried by 98 to 64. In plain words, this message of good-will to the Mother- land means that thirty million people here are to be taxed for the benefit of four million people in the Dominion, we getting as a set-off, however, the Canadian market.
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