Speech #710271016

We were selling 20 per cent of our product abroad. In that connedtion I wish to say that we can spend millions of dollars in developing a good commercial and diplomatic service abroad. we can give this retirement and disability fund to the men we have abroad. we can pay them good salaries and living conditions and we can put them in very expensive buildings. but unless we respect the rights and customs and privileges of the foreign peoples of the world we will not have their good will. and if they can trade with somebody else they are going to do it. Last June we had under consideration a border patrol bill. which would have made Canada more bitter against the United States than she is. I insisted then that that bill contained a new crime and that it meant the cruel embarrassment of small boats and other boats and some 11.000.000 citizens who passed the Canadian border and some 7.000.000 on the Mexican border. I explained it was a very bad bill and that we had not had adequate hearings on it in the House.