ABSTRACT
The Montreal Star voiced the general view when it pointed out that England need not expect Canadian manufacturers to sacrifice their Protection in order that production in which they engaged should in future be reserved to English industry. Again, one recalled the "Canada First!" slogan of the Canadian Minister at the Imperial Conference of 1930, which so moved Mr. J. H. Thomas that he used the unparliamentary expression "humbug". Where the real failure of Ottawa lied was in the total absence of any vindication of the truth that economic progress was to be sought in the general lowering of tariff barriers. The amount of bickering that went on at Ottawa, the clamouring for favours on behalf of certain industries, and the threats of Mr. Bennett, all forced one to come to a conclusion. The conclusion was that the surest way to disintegrate the British Empire was to have a few more Conferences of the kind that had just ended.
