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ment and a sound land policy in Britain, and for reducing importations 

 from foreign countries without lessening demands on the overseas 

 Dominions. 



There can be no greater loyalty to Great Britain than that of 

 persuading her to send of her best to build up Greater Britain. In the 

 past it is probably true that the British people have not done jus- 

 tice to Canada, and few of them know or appreciate what Canada 

 stands for in the Empire. They have sent too few of their fittest 

 and best educated citizens to help in building up this country. Surely 

 when the war is over there must be a stronger and more united effort 

 made, both by Britain and Canada, to look more on each other as 

 integral parts of a great whole, in which no part can benefit to the 

 injury of the other, and no part be injured to the benefit of the other. 

 All parts of the Empire must unite in a scheme of things in which 

 there will be co-operation with independence ; in which there will be a 

 blending of ideals and ideas, and an interchange of citizenship. Why 

 should there not be a greater interchange of population between 

 Canada and Great Britain? Why. should the university trained men 

 of both countries not come and go and find a welcome in their diver- 

 sified fields of labour? Perhaps Britain has revealed in connection 

 with the war a strength and a power which Canadians who have 

 never closely studied her institutions and her social conditions, 

 scarcely realized as possible. Perhaps Canada has revealed resour- 

 ces and potency little dreamt of in Britain. Britain has had a great 

 quality of keeping her most skilled and able men at home, and those 

 who have gone abroad have not always done her justice, but in the 

 future the maintenance of her strength will largely depend on spread- 

 ing her talents into wider fields. On the other hand, there are men 

 of great parts and resourcefulness in the Dominion who could find 

 scope for their skill and energy in the Old Country. The splendidly 

 organized means of transportation between Britain and Canada 

 which existed before the war must be surpassed by greatly improved 

 transportation in the future, and the linking up of the two peoples 

 must be made more real and intimate. Canada needs the kind of 

 human energy that Britain can give and which Britain will find it 

 best to spare, and Britain needs the resources of the lands, the mines 

 and the forests of which Canada has superabundance, when the labour 

 is available to work them. 



Whatever may be done in other belligerent countries to con- 

 serve population after the war, it seems as if the people of the British 

 Empire will have to spread themselves over wider fields. But it 

 must be done after careful thought and preparation is given to the 



