In addition to Guthrie, MPs Henry Herbert Stevens, Sir George Halsey Perley (Argenteuil), Robert Manion (Fort William), Charles Cahan (St. Lawrence—St.

Ferguson's comments were received with a round of boos taking him out of consideration for leadership while also making Meighen succeeding himself untenable.

[5][6] George Halsey Perley, H. H. Stevens, John Allister Currie, New Brunswick Premier John Baxter, Ferguson, Nova Scotia Premier Edgar Nelson Rhodes, and outgoing leader Arthur Meighen were all nominated but declined to run.

[5] Guthrie misspoke by saying: "Ladies and gentlemen, I welcome this, the greatest Liberal convention in all history,"[7] and hurt his prospects in Quebec by saying he wished to "obliterate" distinctions between French and English.

[5] Resolutions were passed favouring preferential tariffs throughout the British Empire but not if it hurt farmers or workers, social legislation to support the unemployed, ill, and elderly "so far as it is practicable" and an immigration policy that supported settlers from Britain and excluded "such races... as are not capable of ready assimilation.

[8][9] The convention also approved the construction of a St. Lawrence canal as an all-Canadian project, maintenance of a maximum freight rate for grain products, construction of interprovincial highways, implementation of the findings of the Duncan Commission investigating grievances of the Maritime provinces, as well as resolutions on the development of mining, the fisheries, and agriculture, and for legislation giving the Western provinces powers over natural resources within their territory.