The+Naval+Issue

=The Naval Issue= . The Rainbow The Niobe Dreadnought
 * German navy challenged the British navy's control of the seas.
 * Britain retaliated with a fast "all-big-gun" battleship with ten 30-centimeter guns called "Dreadnought"
 * Surely this wasn't going to be free and Britain asked its colonies for money.
 * English-Canadians wanted to send money and ships to help Britain but French-Canadians wanted Canada to have a navy of its own.
 * To Compromise Laurier made the naval service act or 1910 which said Canada would have its own navy that would be turned over to Britain during times of emergency.
 * French and English Canadians both disliked this policy and by 1914 Canada still had no naval policy and a small navy consisting of two British warships, the Rainbow and the Niobe