UN TEMOIGNAGE ANGLAIS

L' Industrial Canada a reproduit, dàiis sa livraison d'août 1919, page, 51, un extrait du London Times Trade Supplément, dont voici la majeure partie :

The inteUigently directed organization and enterprise which are being employed by Canadian maniifacturers and merchants in their endeavors to secure a full share of the markets of the world for the Dominion, will undoubtedly produce remarkable results in the near future ... At the Lyons Fair this year most of the Canadian exhibitors displayed explanatory literattu-e, printed in several Eiu-opean languages. Fiu-thermore, offices and showTooms are being opened in both Paris and Brussels by the Export Association of Canada. Canadian trade commissioners hâve been estabhshed in most of the important coimtries of the world for some years past. They are "hve" men, and their work has imdoubtedly been very valuable to Canadian exporters. The Canadian Trade Mission in London is also rendering good service in the development of Canada's export trade. AU this shows that Canada is becoming more and more important as a manufacturing State. Although the population of the Dominion is still under 9,000,000, and its chief industry is and will long remain the production of foodstuffs, the industrial development of the countrj' is going ahead so fast that Canada must soon become an active competitor in many of the world's markets. This will be hastened in one way which was perhaps unforeseen when Impérial Préférence was first proposed. In order to take advantage of the preferential treatment of British-made goods American manufactiuers, in constantly increasing niunbers, are establishing branch factories in Canada. American capital is, therefore, being employed in the industrial development of the Dominion to some extent at the expense of that of the United States. Whatever poUtical effect this extension of the close lies between the Dominion and the Republic may hâve, it is clearly highly advantageous to Canada's industrial progress.

One remarkable advantage Canada posscsses for attacking the Continental market is the présence of two and a half millions of French- .?^ speaking people in the Dominion. This mcans that there is scldom much difïicult}' about seciuing a thoroughly compétent French-speaking représentative. French is still the most useful language over a large area of Europe.

Fred Willi.\ms.

l'action françjlisb novembre 1919