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course, offer any opinion as to the value of the suggestion
 as regards our other colonies, but in Canada
there is no necessity for assistance in this direction.

IMMIGRATION.

Another question worth consideration from an
Imperial point of view is whether there are no
means by which the stream of emigrants that leave
these shores every year could be encouraged to
go to the colonies rather than to foreign countries.
One of the arguments most used by those who
favour preferential tariffs is that they will stimulate
emigration to the colonies and thereby satisfy the
chief desire of those colonies—a desire for increase
of population. The figures of Canadian immigration
 which we have already quoted show that this is
unnecessary. In fact, the rush of emigrants from
all parts of the world into Canada is already so
great that from one point of view it constitutes
 an Imperial danger. Canada, already largely
cosmopolitan, is becoming more so every year,
and it is becoming increasingly desirable to
leaven the mass of foreign immigrants with as
large a number of Britons as possible, if the
British element is to continue large in Western
Canada. Much is being done to achieve this by
the lectures and other methods of popularisation
adopted by the energetic Canadian Department of
Emigration. In these efforts we should co-operate,
although there are difficulties that confront any