In the first meeting of the parliament was the bill to be discussed dealing with the building of 12 cruisers and destroyers needed for the Canadian navy. The parliament was asked to approve a budget of 4.000.000 pound sterling to divided over several years to make a annual budget of around 600.000 pound sterling available. Nine of the 12 ships were to service in the Atlantic and 3 in the Pacific. The Canadian cabinet was negotiating with the British admiralty to send a British time as soon as possible to the Canadian waters for serve as a training ship for midshipmen and sailors for the Canadian navy. There was one major problem dealing with organizing the Canadian navy. The British admiralty preferred to build large docks located at the Canadian coast in stead of establishing a local navy. The all ready existing dry docks were not capable to dock the British dreadnoughts and the making of a new dry dock was for Canada quite expensive. A second problem was where the Canadian warships were to be build in Canada of elsewhere. It was feared that if Canadian yards built these ships they became to expensive but the Canadian economy would profit form the building and the Canadian citizens would more support the shipbuilding program.
