On Friday week Lord Dundonald attended a farewell meeting in
Toronto, which before its close developed into a political demonstration. In the piesence of over six thousand people he repeated his attacks upon the Canadian Govern- ment, and declared that they, and not he, were trampling upon the Constitution. Sir Wilfrid Laurier's name was received with hisses. It is exceedingly regrettable that a dis- tinguished soldier like Lord Dundonald should thus throw himself into the arms of the Canadian Opposition and allow his case to be exploited for local party purposes. Nothing could be more destructive of Imperial unity than that an Imperial officer should be found taking sides in local party politics because of a quarrel in which, on any true interpreta- tion of constitutional doctrine, he was hopelessly in the wrong.
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