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to weigh upon us, and evidently we must enter into fuller partnership 

 with Britain as regards these matters. How that is to be done is the 

 question of the near future. The one essential principle seems to be 

 that in taking a share in Imperial foreign policy we must not become 

 thereby less truly Canadian, but rather complete our nationality in 

 assuming greater obligations. Nothing affects us more than the 

 sacrifice of our own sons. This reaches the very hearths of our home- 

 land, and a policy that calls for such sacrifice is the most intimate of 

 all. Therefore we cannot do the full duty of Canadians by living to 

 ourselves within the Dominion; only by realising the new idea of 

 Empire in common with Britain and the other Dominions can we 

 gain sufficient control even of our domestic destinies. 



