The appointment of a Canadian Minister to Washington is a
highly interesting development of Imperial practice. Mr. Boner Law explained on Monday that the Minister would be appointed by the King, on the advice of the Canadian Government. He would have charge of Canadian affairs and would report to Ottawa. At the same time the Canadian Minister would act as the British Ambassador's deputy, if Sir Auckland Geddes were absent from his post. Mr. Boner Law was careful to say that neither Great Britain nor Canada meant to depart from the diplomatic unity of the British Empire; by which, we think, the . Dominions benefit at least as much as the MotherCountry. The arrangement solves the problem very neatly, and. illustrates both the elasticity of the-Imperial Constitution and the goodwill on which the integrity of the Empire depends.
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