"For an effective prosecution of the war, Canada's industrial, financial and other resources are being steadily mobilized, and all war activities coordinated. Production and marketing of agricultural and other primary products have been given constructive direction, and safeguards provided against undue enhancement in prices of food, fuel and other necessaries of life."
The speech continued that since Parliament's special session late last year, "developments in the war have made increasingly clear the nature of the struggle in. which we are engaged. The very existence of nations that cherish independence and democratic ideals is menaced by enemy forces of ruthless aggression, which aim to dominate mankind by terror and violence.
"The Canadian people have shown their determination to share with Britain and France, to the utmost of their strength, in the defence of freedom."—Reuter.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.