CANADA AND THE EMPIRE.

AN EXAMINATION OF TRADE
PREFERENCES.

CHAPTER 1.

CANADIAN CONDITIONS.

IT is advisable, before passing on to the direct
discussion of Mr. Chamberlain’s programme, to
review some of the important features of a country
so varied and so little understood, Ignorance has
been, is, and will be the chief source of danger to
the Empire. We at home in Britain have much
to learn of the countries flying our flag,and a proper
devotion to this duty would help much to ensure
Imperial unity. The main objections to the application
 of the preferential theory to Canada are
to be found in the conditions obtaining in that
country, and we therefore make no apology for
dwelling upon them,
It must be remembered that the Dominion
is not the homogeneous country it is so often
assumed to be, but consists of widely separated
territories which might easily be antagonised.
Standing in the streets of Halifax after a week on
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