Word: reformations
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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With the prospect of an early gen eral election, some speculation has been heard on the probable planks on which the Liberals will carry on their campaign. Three main issues have been named: 1) Tariff Re form, 2) Senate Reform, 3) Railway Freight Rates...
...Tariff Reform. Canadian Liberals, like their elder brothers in Britain, are confirmed free traders, but here the analogy has to be reversed. Protection is as much of an accepted political dogma as is Free Trade in the Mother Country, with this great difference: a swing from Free Trade to Protection in Britain would not have the immediate consequences that a swing from Protection to Free Trade would have in Canada; for, in the latter case, the country would be thrown open to the exploitation of the U. S. mass production magnates, against whom the comparatively juvenile industrialists of Canada could...
...Senate Reform. This is the "big issue" and one that has often been heard of in Canada. Premier King, here joined by the Progressives, is determined to reduce not only the powers of the Senate but its very composition. He would reduce the powers of the Senate to the undignified status abhorred by the British Lords; that is, he would make it an empty debating chamber with a suspensory veto whereby any measure passed three times by the Canadian House of Commons would become the land's law no matter what the Senate thought about it. As regards the composition...
...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...
...Lincoln Filene, treasurer of William Filene Sons Company will give a talk on "Religion in Business" at 4 o'clock tomorrow afternoon in Peabody Hall, Phillips Brooks House. Mr. Filene is prominent not only as a merchant, but as a recognized leader in the reform of labor and industrial problems, and in the interests of world peace...