The New Canadian Tariff On Tuesday Mr. Bennett, the Prime
Minister, intro- duced the highest tariff ever known in Canada.- According to the Times he explained his measure as being not a general tariff revision bUt a series of changes designed to increase employment. He hoped to accomplish a general revision in the next session as he found the existing schedules full of anachronisms, but meanwhile he expected the tariff changes to give employment within a few weeks to more than 25,000 people. "We propose," he said, "that the requirements of the 10,000,000 people living in Canada shall, so far as possible, be provided by Canadian producers. Ample duties against the United States are imposed, and will be effective, and for them we offer no apology." The new tariff is, indeed, mainly a retort to the latest American tariff.
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