Canada and the League Last Monday's debate on foreign policy
in the Canadian House of Commons was on the whole reassuring. Mr. Bourassa, the veteran French Canadian, whom years have not mellowed, spoke vehemently in an isolationist. sense, aspersing both Great Britain and the League of Nations, and frankly joining up with isolationist opinion in the United States. The resolution -which he moved, however, urged support for "all effective measures to ensure the world's peace either through the League of Nations or otherwise in co-operation with other Governments " ; and the fact that it was unanimously accepted implied no approval of his point of view. Mr. Guthrie for the Government, and Mr. Mackenzie King for the Opposition:, were at one in deprecating his unfriendly attitude towards the League. Canada has been a useful League member, and it would be a real loss if she ceased to be. Yet with the isolationist tide running so high in the United States it is not surprising that there should be a spill-over in the Dominion next door. .
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