Responsible government in the Dominions: Responsible government in the Dominions

Responsible government in the Dominions (Vol. 3)

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Author:: Keith, Arthur Berriedale http://d-nb.info/gnd/119086794

Title:: Responsible government in the Dominions

Place of publication:: Oxford

Publisher:: Clarendon Press

Year of publication:: 1912-

Collection:: Economics Books

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Identifikator:: 1896935311

URN:: urn:nbn:de:zbw-retromon-237672

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Author:: Keith, Arthur Berriedale http://d-nb.info/gnd/119086794

Title:: Responsible government in the Dominions

Volume count:: Vol. 3

Place of publication:: Oxford

Publisher:: Clarendon Pr.

Year of publication:: 1912

Scope:: XII Seiten, Seiten 1102-1670

Digitisation:: 2022

Collection:: Economics Books

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Title:: Part V. Imperial control over Dominion administration and legislation

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CHAP. V] TREATY RELATIONS 1153 ridiculous in the pursuit of such a policy to refuse to avail herself of the markets of the great nation lying alongside ? The expressed fear that it will seriously affect imports from Great Britain is groundless; the greater part of the agree- ment deals with natural products which Great Britain does not send us. The range of manufactures affected is com- paratively small, and in most cases the reductions are small. It appears to be assumed in some quarters that the tariff rates agreed upon discriminate in favour of the United States and against Great Britain. There is no foundation for this. In every case Great Britain will still have the same rate, or a lower one. Canada’s right to deal with the British preference as she pleases remains untouched by the agreement. The adoption of the agreement will probably lead to some further revision of the Canadian Tariff in which the Canadian Parliament will be entirely free to fix the British Preferential Tariff at any rates that may be deemed proper. In view of the conclusion of the reciprocity arrangement the Canadian Government decided! at the Imperial Conference to press for the exemption of Canada from the operation of the old treaties with Argentina, Austria-Hungary, Bolivia, Colombia, Denmark, Norway, Russia, Spain, Sweden, Swit- zerland, and Venezuela, which contain most-favoured-nation clauses, and are binding on Canada. It may at once be ad- mitted that the presence of these clauses is vexatious and annoying, but the denunciation is a serious matter unless it can be arranged for without involving the denunciation of the treaties generally. The proposal goes far beyond the denun- ciation of the Belgian and German treaties, for these treaties forbad a preference to Great Britain by the Colonies, and were an accidental and unreasoning restriction on the internal freedom of the Empire, which might properly be removed from the Empire as a whole by the denunciation of the treaties. To denounce these older treaties merely to free Canada would be a very different step. In these negotiations the Canadian ministers were to all intents and purposes neither less not more than plenipoten-~ See Parl. Pap., Cd. 5745, pp. 333-9 ; below, Part VIII, chap. iii.

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