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will certainly ask for it, and as certainly get it, or quit
the concern.

(D 1.)—There is a general impression, which I hold
not to be well founded, that British diplomacy has
neglected Canadian interests. This feeling has been
stirred to rather angry expression by the result of the
Alaskan boundary arbitration. But I do not think it
is likely to produce any serious demand.
(D 2.)—No.
(D 3.)—(a) Only to be left alone to make this
country as strong as we can in our own way.
Presently we shall be telling you that English occupation
 of Halifax and Esquimalt is as anomalous as
would be Canadian occupation of Plymouth and
Berehaven.
(b) (1) Leave to look after, under the King, our
defences with other powers, especially the States.
(2) Leave to extend our trade without being bound
by your (British) commercial engagements.
(D 4)—This is a large order. In my opinion
Canada will ask in the not too distant future for larger
powers of government, which will take her definitely
sut of the colony class. The right to amend her own
constitution, the power to make her own treaties,
are among the changes that will be requested.
Technically—and sometimes not technically —the
Canadian Parliament is subject to the control of
Downing Street. The tendency will be to make the
Canadian Parliament the equal, not the subordinate,
of the English Parliament.
{D 5.)—No.
(F.)—The embargo on Canadian cattle has always
excited a disproportionate amount of feeling here.
Generally speaking, Canada waxes fat and kicks,
but kicks in the air. An Alaskan boundary case, of
course, stands by itself. Laurier’s talk of treatymaking
 power is simply a very clever move to take
advantage of the Alaska bitterness to stimulate the