One of the most encouraging features of the recovery of business in Canada during the past few years is the almost spectacular ex-Jpausion of some of our principal insurance companies, and of the Jeonsolidation of the position of almost all insurance business in Canada, The largest and best known of these companies is the Sun Life Assurance Ca, of Canada with head offices in Montreal. This is not only the largest life insurance company' jin Canada but in the whole of mneval public, whether or not they understand the intricacies of debentures and mortgages and the details. of Railway" administration, He said that Canada's national probles are comparatively "simple fones, and that in a word what Canada needs is population, stated what we all ought to know but often forget, that Canada has great wxeographical difficulties contend with, due to her northern climate and her great stretches waste land, "But," said Mr. Beatty, "1 donot know of any problem how faced by Canada which could not be solved by an increase of Population." The speaker is at the hend of our greatest national me stitution, and knows the country from Halifax to Vancouver and consequently speaks with authority, he problem of population is truly our react iutty "and it us to be seen What the new Government wil do about Loyal to the Empire Canada's representatives at the' Imperial conference have arrived in England to discuss with men from over the Empire the problems of the parts and the whole of the Commonwealth of Nations.—Ale though the constitutional question in Canada wax much discussed before the recent election the general impression here is that there isnot tauich interest in the matter now, But although there is not much ins terest in the purely technical and egal aspect of the ense, there is rear interest in the whole question Of the Imperial relationship, evidenced by the outery raised when "American editors suggested. that ye given to the United in settlement of the war debt, or when Wall Street saw reciprobity: followings a Liberal. victory at the polls. We may be under the influence of American customs, and movies, literature and capital," but the overwhelming: majority of Cana-inns are loyal to King and Empive spite of the influences me and many wish to see the Imperial ties While the Imperial conference is in session a celebrated case ly to be pleaded before the Privy Council, and by this T_mean the boundary dispute between Canada and New-found land over the Labrador coast. 'This is matter of many years' standing and the territory involved is an area of many thousand square The ease has not been dealt eight years although the dispute arose about 20 years ago. The most eminent lawyers of Canada and Newfoundland are now in London for the purpose 0 laying before the Privy Counci. noth sides of the case.
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