CANADA AND THE EMPIRE.
[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.]
Sin,—Mr. Evelyn Wrench has.indicated that one of the three alternative political courses for Canada is "free nationhood within the British Commonwealth." Does he suggest that the political status of Canada should be precisely the same as that of the United Kingdom, and that the only political association should be allegiance to the same King ? In other words, does he mean that Canada, in its relation to the United Kingdom, should be precisely the same as was Hanover to the United Kingdom during the reigns of the Georges ? If this is not his meaning, what else can it be? For some years I have been asking these questions in Canada (for the con- tradictory phraseology has been widely current there), so far without having received even an attempt at reply. Perhaps I may get some light by extending my inquiry to the British
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