Bennett focused much of biting speech on Canada’s (failed) immigration policies, relations with Alberta over natural resources policy, and, its inept handling of the building of crucial national projects. You will find some of Bennett’s comments as reported by the Montreal Gazette on January 20, 1928 below.

Relations with Alberta:  Over a year ago the Minister of Justice and the Minister of the Interior, on behalf of the Dominion Government, had signed an agreement with representatives of Alberta for the return of natural resources to that province. "That has not been done yet," commented Mr. Bennett. The question had, however, been referred by Court Canada. The decision of that body was that the Alberta Act was constitutional in every respect.

"One would have thought that the Judgment of the Supreme Court of Canada would have been accepted," declared Mr. Bennett. "Instead, the Dominion Government had made an application to the Privy Council in England to hear an appeal in the matter, and when the application came before the Privy Council there was no respondent on hand to uphold it. I suggest that the Government, without further delay, turn over to Alberta its natural resources," said Mr. Bennett. The long delay in doing this had created a most unfavouuable impression throughout the country, "Why should we delay?" asked the Opposition leader.

National projects to help bring natural resources to market: “We were informed that the railway problems of provinces had been discussed at the Dominion-Provincial conference. The fact that Parliament was not appraised of the nature of these discussions, indicated that the Government now tended to ignore the representatives of the people in these matters,” Bennett said. He referred to the change from the port of Nelson to Fort Churchill for the Hudson Bay railway…

Nelson, said Mr. Bennett, had been selected as the terminal of the Hudson Bay railway by Hon. Frank Cochrane when he was Minister of Railways in the Borden Government. The selection had been made on the advice of competent engineers. Six million dollars had been spent on a proper terminal report in Nelson.

Now (the King government) of a British "estuarial engineer" had changed it to Churchill.

Canada’s immigration policies: Of Immigration Mr. Bennett said that a state of unrest and suspicion of the administration existed throughout the country, a suspicion of the methods by which the permits were issued for immigrants...

Since 1922 immigrants had been coming in the front door and out the back. "We have not in any one year since 1921 brought in one-half as many immigrants as in 1913. This threatens the life of the Dominion. We must have settlers," said Mr. Bennett. It must be done in a large way and it must involve the expenditure of large sums of money. Mr. Bennett suggested a special committee of Parliament to hear the evidence of railway presidents, officials of the department at home and abroad. The committee should hear the question in its entirety in order that the people should have suspicions of the department removed.

"Only his day I had a cable from a friend in London, vitally interested in these matters, saying 'your new medical regulations are absurd.'" The Government was doing next to nothing and it was not getting settlers. The figures indicated un almost total failure.”