Canada
The Canadian elections have gone with a swing against Mr. King, the Liberal Prime Minister for the last five years. Even in the Province of Quebec many of the old Liberal and Roman Catholic constituencies have deserted the party led triumphantly by Sir Wilfrid Laurier in the past. A substantial entry of French Canadians into the Conservative Party may have quite new effects. The new tariff, introduced by Mr. Dunning, who is unseated, is evidently not the remedy with which the people think that their economic depression will be cured. British Columbia, in sonic ways the most British of the Provinces, alone returns more Liberals than before. Mr. Bennett, who is well known and liked in the Mother Country and was born in New Brunswick like Mr. Bonar Law, will become Prime Minister with a Con- servative majority over all other parties together. He is, of course, a strong Protectionist. That will make no differ- ence to the warm welcome that he will receive here at the Imperial Conference.
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