The news had come too fast for quick digestion. Not until Canadians had a chance to study last week's historic pronouncements did they realize that their government had boldly set the Dominion's economy on a new course. The trip would be risky, the destination uncertain.
The $300 million credit loan from the U.S. Export-Import Bank was not particularly disturbing, nor were the new restrictions (a limit of $150 a year) on pleasure travel in the U.S. Restrictions on imports from the U.S. were harder to take. Finance Minister Douglas Charles Abbott said they would be "temporary." But for the time being...
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