From her correspondent at Ottawa was the newspaper Times reported that the Parliament at the start of her new parliamentary year the first of the new bills was dealing with the building of 12 warships for the Canadian fleet consisting of cruisers and destroyers. The parliament was asked to approve a budget of 4.000.000 pound sterling to spent over a number of years with other words an annual budget of around 600.000 pound sterling. It was intended to built 12 warships of which 9 for the Atlantic and 3 for the Pacific. The Canadian government was negotiating with the British Admiralty to sent immediately a British cruiser to Canadian waters to serve as a training ships for midshipmen and sailors for the Canadian fleet. The organisation of the Canadian navy was an other issue. The British Admiralty seemed to prefer the building of large dry docks at the Canadian coast above the creating of a local fleet. The existing dry docks didn’t answer the needs of the British navy regarded her dreadnoughts but the building of a new dry dock demanded large expenses from Canada. Another issue was where the ships were to be built, in Canada of somewhere else. If the Canadian were ordered to built these ships very high costs were feared but the money was spent in Canada with as result more acceptance by the Canadian people for the fleet programme.
