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...morrow of the reassembly of the Canadian Parliament at Ottawa, certain signs have taken form, clearly indicating that Premier William Lyon Mackenzie King, temporal and spiritual successor of Canada's great Prime Minister, Sir Wilfred Laurier, intends to throw the country a bone of contention by asking the Governor General to dissolve Parliament and call a general election...
...easier to talk about Senate Reform than to accomplish it, as no less a Canadian statesman than Sir Wilfred Laurier found out. The House of Commons can initiate and pass a bill; of that there is no doubt. The bill would necessarily take the form of an amendment to the British North America Act (the Canadian Constitution)± and that requires?irrespective of whether the bill were passed over the heads of the venerable Senators, which is impossible?an address from both Houses of the Canadian Parliament requesting the Mother Parliament at Westminster to amend the Act. Thus it becomes...
...Premiers were forced to let it be known that they would be able to accept only a fraction of the numerous invitations they had received. The Daily Mail, Rothermere daily, applauded their decision, recalling "the Imperial Conference of 1907, when the late Sir Wilfrid Laurier, then Canadian Premier; the late Premier Louis Botha of South Africa; and the late Dr. Leander Starr Jameson of Cape Colony were simultaneously ill from over-banqueting...
...neighbors sometimes agree; four neighbors, very rarely. In 1911 the Liberals were in power in Canada, and W. S. Fielding, Minister of Finance in Sir Wilfrid Laurier's Ministry, negotiated a reciprocity tariff agreement with Secretary Knox of the Taft Administration. Champ Clark swung the Democrats of the House of Representatives for reciprocity. Thereby three neighbors came into agreement: the Republicans (U. S.), the Democrats (U. S.) and the Liberals (Canada). The Conservatives (Canada) were the fourth neighbor. They overturned the pudding-and the Laurier Cabinet-in a special election. At the end of twelve years' political vicissitudes...
...publication of the will of the Canadian gentleman who bequeathed a legcy to his politically unsympathetic brother on conditions that the later should once a year shout from his front porch the words, "Hurrah for Sir Wilfred Laurier and Reciprocity!", recalls the days of a decade ago when Champ Clark suggested that Reciprocity would be merely the first step in the annexation of Canada to the United States...