1917-06-07

QUESTIONS.


Mr. EDWARDS:: 1.	How many Government terminal and interior storage elevators were there in Canada previous to October 1, 1911, and where were they located?
2.	How many Government terminal and interior storage elevators have been constructed since October 1, 1911, and where are they located?


Sir GEORGE FOSTER:: 1.	None.
2.	Five. Port Arthur, Moosejaw, Saskatoon, Calgary and Vancouver.



QUESTIONS PASSED AS ORDERS FOR RETURNS.

Mr. CARVELL:: 1.	How many recruiting officers have been appointed in the province of Quebec?
2.	What are the names, addresses, nature of functions and salaries of said officers?


Mr. LANCTOT:: 1.	Does the Department of Agriculture supply thoroughbred bulls for improvement of stock to applicants for the same?
2.	If so, have any' suoh bulls been sent into the County of Dorchester, Quebec, and when?

3.	At whose request were these hulls sent, and did they belong to the Department of Agriculture?
4.	If so, on what condition were they supplied?
5.	From whom did the department purchase the animals referred to?
6.	What was the price paid?
7.	Has any official of the Department of Agriculture made an investigation as to where these hulls are at the present time?
8.	If so, what is the substance of their report?
9.	Are the said hulls being used for the purpose for which they were intended?



MILITARY SERVICE BILL.

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On the Orders of the Bay:
Rt.   H@: I beg to announce that the Military Service Bill, 1917, will be introduced on Monday next.


Rt.   H@: Can my right hon. friend say when we may expect the second reading?


Sir ROBERT BORDEN:: Whenever it may be convenient. I should be prepared to consult my right hon. friend's convenience in that regard, except that I should like to proceed with it with as much expedition as may be possible.



ALLEGED ADVANCE TO RAILWAY COMPANY.

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On the Orders of the Day:
Hon. RODOLPHE LEMIEUX:: May I
ask if the report is true, that an advance has been made to a railway company by Order in Council? If this report is true, what is the amount and to what railway company has the advance been made?	*


Sir THOMAS WHITE:: I have no information in respect to the question asked by my hon. friend. No advance has been made by Order in Council, so far as I know.



INSURANCE ACT OF 1910.


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Sir THOMAS WHITE (Minister of Finance) moved the second leading of Bill No. 53, respecting insurance.
He said:	This legislation is rendered
necessary by a decision of the Judicial Committee of the Privy Council in what is known as The Insurance Case, which was decided in March of last year. The Bill repeals the Insurance Act of 1910 and Te-enaots it with certain amendments. The amendments are of two classes:	First,
those which are necessary to remove from the existing Act the features which have

been ruled by the decision of the Privy Council in The Insurance Case to be ultra vire6, and, second, those considered necessary to meet changed conditions which have arisen since the passing of the present Act and to remove serious defects which have come to light in the course of its administration. The decision of the Privy Council to which I have alluded is the culmination of considerable litigation which has from time to time during the last twenty years concerned itself with the question of the constitutionality of the Insurance Act. The point as to the constitutionality of the Insurance Act, however, never came up squarely in the course of the litigation to which I have referred. It arose incidentally from time to time, and as a result of the doulbt which was cast upon the constitutionality of the Act, a reference was made by the Solicitor General of Canada to the Supreme Court to determine the question. The Supreme Court gave its decision, and the case was afterwards appealed to the Privy Council. In 1909 it was held by Judge Lett, sitting as magistrate in ihe city of Montreal, that the Insurance Act was ultra vires and that it was not po&sible to enforce the penalties provided by the Act for infractions of the law. As a result, the administration of the Insurance Act was practically paralyzed.
Sir WILFRID LAURIER:: On what
ground?


William Thomas White: On the ground that it was ultra vires of the Dominion Parliament.


Mr. GRAHAM:: What particular part of the Act was declared ultra vires, and to what part of the case did it refer?


William Thomas White: The case was the King vs. Willis Faber & Company, who, unlicensed, had been soliciting insurance and collecting premiums in violation of a provision of the Act as in force at that time, which is now section 4 of the Insurance Act.


Wilfrid Laurier: The magistrate held that the license could be issued only by the provincial government?


William Thomas White: It was held that the legislature of the Dominion, in requiring a company or person to obtain a license before carrying on the business of insurance in Canada, was ultra vires of the Dominion.


Wilfrid Laurier: That matter belonged to the provinces only?


William Thomas White: I am not sure as to what further was decided, but that was the point so far as Dominion legislation was concerned. There was no appeal from that decision, and the result was that the administration of the Insurance Act has been practically paralyzed ever since becanse of the impossibility of enforcing the penalties provided for infractions of the law. The matter came squarely before the Privy Council as to the constitutionality of sections 4 and 70 of the Act. Section 4 of the Act is as follows:
In Canada, except as otherwise provided by this Act, no company or underwriters or 'other person shall solicit or accept any risk, or issue or deliver any receipt or policy of insurance, or grant any annuity on a life or lives, or collect or receive any premium, or inspect any risk, or adjust any loss, or carry on any business of insurance, or prosecute or maintain any suit, action or proceeding, or file any claim in insolvency relating to such business, unless it be done by or on behalf of a company or underwriters holding a license from the minister.
In other words, the Act prohibits any company or person from carrying on the business of insurance in Canada without obtaining a license from the Dominion Government. I should explain that that section applied not only to companies incorporated by the Dominion Parliament and to persons throughout the Dominion, but to companies incorporated by the provinces carrying on business outside such provinces. The Privy Council decided that section 4 was ultra vires of the Dominion Parliament. The terms of its decision in that connection are as follows:
Their Lordships are therefore of opinion that the majority in the Supreme Court were right in answering the first of the two questions referred to them in the affirmative.
That is to say, the effect of the decision of the Supreme Court, afterwards confirmed by the Judicial Committee of the Privy Council, was that sections 4 and 70-the latter being the section providing penalties for infractions of the Act-were ultra vires of the Parliament of Canada. Although the question asks whether the sections are ultra vires of the Parliament of Canada, and specifically inquires as to whether "any and what part or parts of the said sections" are ultra vires of the Parliament of Canada, the Privy Council has contented itself with stating that sections 4 and 70 are ultra vires. The result is that the validity of sections 4 and 70-and, by consequence, of the whole Insurance Act, because section 4 is a basic and fundamental section of the
Act-is impugned by the decision of the Privy Council.	.
The Privy Council has not stated whether any particular provision or provisions of section 4 of the Insurance Act are intra vires; it simply states that section 4 is ultra vires, but it is to be gathered from the context of the judgment of the Privy Council that the Judicial Committee is of the opinion that it is beyond the powers of Parliament to require a provincially incorporated insurance company to obtain a license from the minister, even if the company extends its business to provinces other than that by which it was incorporated. I may say that the existing Act, that is to say, the Insurance Act of 1910, withdraws from its application the provincially incorporated company which restricts its business to its own province, but requires it to obtain a Dominion license in the event of its extending its business beyond that province; that is to say, under the Dominion Act of 1910, a provincially incorporated company doing business solely within its own province was not required to obtain a license, but if it extended its business beyond the confines of its province, then by section 4 of the Insurance Act it was required to obtain a license from the Dominion Government. The most important change in the new Bill, therefore, arising out of the constitutional question-and I am discussing the constitutional question and the amendments necessary to meet the decision first-is the withdrawal from the application of the Act of all provincially incorporated companies save those which voluntarily obtain a license from the minister. Just let me repeat that. The new Bill, now before the House, excludes from its operation provincially incorporated companies whether they carry on their business solely within the province or beyond its jurisdiction. It seems to be necessary that they all should be excluded in order to come within the requirements of the judgment of the Privy Council. In order to meet the case of provincially incorporated companies which may desire voluntarily to take out licenses under the Dominion Insurance Act, provision is made in the Bill whereby such companies, if they elect to come in, are regarded as Canadian companies for the purposes of the Act.
I think I can summarize in a sentence what I have said as to provincially incorporated companies. The effect is that unless a provincially incorporated company voluntarily seeks a license under the Act, it is completely exempt from the provisions of the Act; but if it seeks and obtains such



a license, it becomes a Canadian company, and so becomes subject to the Act to the same extent as those Canadian companies originally incorporated by Parliament.
There is another question of an important character involved in the decision of the Privy Council and dealt with in this House, and that is as to whether the Dominion Parliament has jurisdiction to require a foreign insurance	company-and	by
" foreign " I include British-to take out a license even in a case where a company desires to carry on its business only within the limits of a single province. The answer which the Privy Council gave upon that side of the case was that it was " within the power of Parliament, by properly framed legislation "-I am reading from their lordships' decision-to impose such a restriction as it appears that such power is given by section 91 of the British North America Act, which refers to the regulation of trade and commerce and to aliens. In other words, their lordships say that by properly framed legislation the Dominion Parliament may enact legislation of an authoritative and binding character upon foreign insurance companies, and they found that jurisdiction upon section 91 of the British North America Act, which, of course, in the division of subjects between the provinces and the Dominion, allocates to the Dominion the subjects of trade and commerce and aliens. The suggestion, however, of their lordships that the Dominion might do this by properly framed legislation is an intimation that the existing legislation is inadequate, and therefore the sections of the Bill now before the House which require British and foreign companies to obtain a license under it are so worded as to show that the power assumed is taken under the heads which I have mentioned, namely, trade and commerce and aliens. This Bill, before being brought before the House, has received the most careful consideration on the part not only of the Insurance Department, but of the Deputy Minister of Justice and of outside counsel, in order to bring its provisions within the judgment of the Judicial Committee in the insurance case, and strictly within the powers of enactment of the Dominion Parliament. That is all I, have to say upon the constitutional aspect of the matter. All the constitutional changes are to be found in sections two to twelve, inclusive, of . this Bill.


Mr. McKENZIE:: The question as to the right of locally incorporated companies to do business in other provinces than that in which they are incorporated has been hack
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and forth before the courts for a number of years, and it has also been before the Privy Council. I am not familiar as to how that question stands now, and that question is involved in the question that the minister is now discussing. Suppose an insurance company, incorporated by the province of Ontario, starts to do business in the province of Quebec, would this Government have a right to give that Ontario incorporated company a license to do business in the province of Quebec? I understand the minister has taken power by this legislation to give that Ontario company such a license. I would be afraid that we would have no jurisdiction to enable a local company that has power to do business only in Ontario to go into Quebec or any other province to do business there.


William Thomas White: 
Mr. CARVELL:: What limit do you make?


William Thomas White: The amendment provides that such companies which have an unimpaired capital may on complying with such conditions as may be required by the Treasury Board, including the maintenance of deposits in excess of that ordinarily required, obtain licenses under the Act. The maximum amount of excess deposit which may be required is left at $200,000, as in the existing Act, but the minimum excess deposit of $50,000 for a license for fire or life insurance, and of $10,000 for a license for other classes has been removed. I may say that this has been done upon the recommendation of the Superintendent of Insurance who has gone into the matter carefully. It seems to me to be on the whole a wise amendment.
Then provision is made to permit of contracts of fire insurance and automobile insurance being combined in a single policy.
There is a further provision prohibiting any company from issuing a financial state-
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ment including in the surplus of the company the amount of the subscribed or paid up capital, unless the amount of such subscribed or paid up capital is specifically stated and mentioned as included in the surplus. It also requires that a statement containing figures showing the amount of the subscribed capital shall also show the amount paid thereon, and if the statement shows the authorized capital, it shall also show the subscribed and paid up capital. The amendment is designed to abolish the practice, somewhat common, of issuing financial statements showing huge surpluses to policyholders, which surpluses are made up almost wholly of subscribed but unpaid capital. For instance, a company may have a subscribed capital of $2,000,000, but a more or less worthless set of shareholders. Now if that company shows in its statements to the public its subscribed capital, we are making it show its paid up capital, also the idea being, of course, to protect the public.
Then there are some important amendments arising out of conditions disclosed at the time the Union Life Insurance Company became insolvent and was wound up. The House may remember that the Superintendent of Insurance became liquidator, and as the result of reinsurance effected with the Metropolitan Life a great catastrophe was averted. There were some 150,000 or 160,000 policyholders in that company. It carried on "industrial" insurance. We found that the present Act does not lend itself to insistence by the Superintendent of Insurance upon reinsurance. It is very difficult when a company becomes insolvent to force the directors to take the action which is necessary to protect the policyholders. The action that is indicated in most cases of that kind is clearly reinsurance, but there was no provision in the Act of 1910 empowering the Superintendent of Insurance or the minister to say to the directors of the company in a clear case, after every opportunity has been given to put the company in a solvent condition, "Now you must reinsure." We are now taking power to do that. It was found in connection with the Union Life that it was possible under the existing Act to make improvident contracts extending say over a course of twenty years. If the company was thrown into insolvency the holder of that contract would rank for the value of his contract with other creditors upon the proceeds. It was felt by the Insurance Department and by the Government that there should be legislation to prevent the entering into of contracts of that kind, and there

is provision in the present legislation to meet that situation. It relates, of course, to contracts burdensome to companies.
Then we have a section which deals with the powers of investment of insurance companies. In section 58 it is provided, in subsection 2, that any provincial company which obtains a license under this Act and which has unauthorized securities among its investments, shall dispose of the same within five years from the date of the issue of the Dominion license. Under the present Act provincial companies obtaining a Dominion license probably retain the powers of investment granted by their provincial charters. It is now proposed that such companies obtaining a Dominion license shall have their investment powers curtailed or enlarged to conform with the provisions of the Act.
That is to say, if a provincially incorporated company, by its own voluntary action, submits itself to the jurisdiction of the Dominion, then its power of investment must be curtailed to conform to the investment requirements of the Dominion Insurance Act. There are other provisions which limit the power of a Canadian company to invest in the stock of any other company which is transacting, or authorized to transact, the same class of insurance. That is to prevent interlocking, so to speak, of directorates and businesses. Then we have the further protection to policy-holders, and to the public, in that we have provided that the directors of the company shall be responsible for the replacing of certain unauthorized investments. It has been specially drawn to the attention of the department and to the minister that directors will, notwithstanding the plain terms of the Insurance Act, make unauthorized investments, and the Superintendent of Insurance does not become aware of it until the damage is done. Under the present Act, there appears to be no effectual provision for dealing with directors who make such unauthorized investments, and we have attempted to remedy that in the present Bill.
There is another important amendment, relating to hail insurance companies. Some of these companies have been carrying on business without proper safeguards, so far as the public is concerned. I do not make a sweeping statement, but I say that some of them at all events carry on business without providing an adequate reserve fund. In this Bill there is provision that Canadian companies shall accumulate their profits until a reserve fund is established equal to

at least 50 per cent of the premiums received during the preceding calendar year. That is a necessary safeguard in the interests of the public, and especially of the farming community who take out hail insurance.
There are further provisions in the new Act, giving the Insurance Department and the Treasury Board greater share of control over insurance companies in the organization stage. Without going into details, I may say that these safeguards are similar to those thrown around the organization of banks, under the Bank Act. Hon. members may recall that that subject was dis-cused pretty fully before the Banking and Commerce Committee on the last revision of the Bank Act, and subsequently in the House.
This is an important measure, involving the re-acting .of the present Insurance Act, with the amendments which I have indicated. I should not have brought it down this session, the House being engaged principally in business arising out of the war, save for the fact that the administration of the Act is paralyzed on account of the doubt cast on the entire legislation by the decision of the Pirivy 'Council. I may say, further, that it is not possible to accomplish what we have in mind by a mere amending of the Act, because it has been necessary to define terms and use phraseology not used in the existing act, and as a result we have been obliged to bring down a Bill covering the entire field.


Mr. MARCIL:: I understand the minister's declaration to mean that a company incorporated by a provincial legislature is fully authorized to carry on business within the province, without any control from the Dominion?


William Thomas White: Yes.


Charles Marcil: Without a license, report, inspection, or anything at all?


William Thomas White: That is the position.


Charles Marcil: I am very sorry to hear
that, because- it is contrary to the public sentiment in Quebec and is a very bad provision. I think, if all insurance companies *were made responsible to the Dominion it would be in the public interest.
Motion agreed to and Bill read the second time, and referred to the Select Committee on Banking and Commerce.



CRIMINAL 'CODE AMENDMENT RESPECTING INSURANCE.

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Hon. C. J. DOHERTY (Minister of Justice) moved the second reading of Bill No.

54, to amend the Criminal Code Respecting Insurance.
George Perry Graham: Explain.


Mr. DOHERTY:: This Bill is in reality the complement of the Bill which has just been read the second time on the motion of the Minister of Finance. Substantially, this Bill makes it an offence under the Criminal Code for any person to engage in the business of insurance, unless he has obtained, or is acting on behalf -of a company which has obtained, the license provided for in the Bill which has been read the second time. There is just one enacting provision; the others are details. The reason this matter is dealt with by an amendment to the Criminal Code is, perhaps, to be found in the observation which the hon. gentleman from Bonaventure just made in connection with the other Bill, namely, that it is a matter of general public interest that there should be effective supervision and control over the business of insurance throughout the Dominion of Canada, and so important was it that there should be that control effectively exercised, and so much was the public exposed to serious deception, entailing serious loss and damage, if there were not that control, that it would 'be a perfectly proper thing to look upon it as a public wrong-in other words, a crime-for a company to carry on that business without subjecting itself to the supervision and control provided under the Insurance Act. It may be said that that might very well be provided in the Insurance Act. I am not prepared to dispute the soundness of that proposition, but it was thought well, in view of some things that were said in the course of the litigation to which the Minister of Finance has referred, to make it quite clear that Parliament, in taking upon itself to make it an offence to carry on the business of insurance otherwise than in conformity with the provisions of the Insurance Act, was dealing with the matter as a public wrong, and that, in enacting legislation providing for punishment Parliament should avowedly and expressly, proceed under its power to deal with the criminal law. I do not desire to suggest that the same argument might not have been made, and perhaps just as effectively, if these provisions had been embodied' in the Act itself. But it was thought wiser, in view of past experience and the result of previous legislation, to take every precaution that could be taken to meet the suggestion that the legislation might perhaps be open to question as coming under any other powers of this Parliament, by making it quite clear that Parliament, at all events as far as its views of the matter and the manner in which it approached it might bear upon it, looked upon the matter and dealt with it as a proper subject for criminal legislation and in the exercise of its exclusive power to deal with the criminal law.


Wilfrid Laurier: What was the charge against the individuals who were brought before Judge Leet and in regard to which he said that this Parliament had exceeded its authority?


Charles Joseph Doherty: and finally toy the Privy Council upon a reference 'by this Government to 4 p.m. the Supreme Court in the first instance of the question of the constitutionality of this particular section, and the fact that this judgment had been rendered by the magistrate was, I think, one of the many other circumstances which led the then Government to consider that it was a proper thing to have the question submitted and decided.


Wilfrid Laurier: What was the final judgment rendered by the Privy Council? There was so much noise that I could not hear the Finance Minister.


Charles Joseph Doherty: As the Minister of Finance pointed out, the Privy Council held, affirming the judgment of the Supreme Court, that section 4 of the Act of 1910 was ultra vires of the Parliament of Canada, that the Par'iament of Canada had no constitutional power to enact section 4 which prohibited the carrying on of the insurance business generally save by companies obtaining licenses from the Government of Canada or by persons acting on behalf of such companies. The Privy Council held that in that general enactment the Parliament of Canada had exceeded its powers. I have not before me the text of the judgment, or the reasoning that leads up to this finding, and which is endeavoured to be met in the provisions of the Bill which has just passed its second reading.


Wilfrid Laurier: I repeat that there was so much noise, and the accous-tics of this House are so bad, that I could not hear. But, I understood my hon. friend, the Minister of Finance, to say that their lordships of the Privy Council had expressed the opinion that this Parliament would have the power to pass properly framed legislation.


William Thomas White: I was dealing
with the question of foreign insurance companies carrying on business in Canada. Their lordships expressed the opinion that the Dominion Parliament, under its jurisdiction as to trade and. commerce and aliens, could pass legislation requiring such companies to take out a license before they could carry on business in Canada, and their lordships expressed the view that the Dominion Parliament could do that on properly framed legislation. That seemed to imply that the legislation at present existing, that is to say, the Insurance Act of 1910, was not properly framed. In this Bill they have endeavoured to so frame the

legislation as to bring it within the terms of their lordships' judgment. In the section dealing with foreign insurance companies Parliament assumes jurisdiction by special reference to its powers under section 91 of the British North America Act relating to trade and commerce and aliens. With regard to provincially incorporated companies, their lordships' judgment appears to be clear that the Dominion Parliament has no authority over these.


George Perry Graham: What I have to say might properly have been said when, my hon friend the Minister of Finance (Sir Thomas White) had his Insurance Bill before the House. We seem, by this judgment of the Judicial Committee of the Privy Council, to have got the insurance business into somewhat of a muddle. I am srory, that is the position. It strikes me that the better way, on behalf of the public, is to have the insurance business controlled by one head and that head the Insurance Department of the Dominion. Under this decision we seem to have five different standards. We have the provincial company operating in the province in which it has got its charter; we have the company with a provincial charter operating outside of its own province; we have the foreign one operating in one or two provinces; then we have the federal one operating anywhere in Canada. The difficulty is a bit serious. The company with a federal charter is subject to all the restrictions of all the Insurance Acts passed by this Parliament and it must be admitted that these restrictions, while necessary, are quite severe in some instances. That is, while they protect the public, they hamper some businesses that might be considered legitimate by the ordinary business concern but are not so considered on account of the ramifications of the business of an insurance company. Now we have the provincial company operating in competition with the federal company without these restrictions. It strikes me that it would be almost necessary, if it were possible, for the provinces and the federal authority to get together and arrive at some basis of restriction which would be incorporated in all the Acts because if that be not done, two companies side by side and doing business with the same people may be operating under different Acts altogether, which would not be for the public good and certainly would not be for the good of the companies. The provinces, of course, under section 92 of the British North America Act, have the

right to impose licenses where a company is operating within their borders, whether it be a federal company or a provincial company. Each province, generally speaking, has given to municipalities in it the right to impose further taxation, so that the federal company finds itself now in the position of having to take out a license with the Dominion, another with each province, and another with each municipality, making the . company that has a federal charter a much more expensive institution to conduct than the one that takes out a provincial charter.
There is another question that strikes me as important, and perhaps the minister has provided for it in his Bill. Under the present Act, no company gets credit in its report for re-insurance in another company that has not a federal license. Now the question will arise immediately, will this Bill provide that re-insurance in a provincial company, though it has not a federal charter, will be credited to the company taking out that re-insurance when it comes to make its report to the Finance Department. It is a serious matter, particularly to younger companies. I suggest to the minister that this is something worth thinking about in arranging the details of this Act, because he can readily see that many provincial companies may have charters, and I am inclined to think that they will in many instances confine themselves to the provincial charters, as the provincial restrictions are not now as severe as those 'imposed on federally-incorporated companies. Before the Bill goes into committee, I would suggest to the minister that he think that matter over, as it is one of vital importance.
There is one more point, which the minister and I have discussed privately, that is the valuation of securities held by these companies. Under the present system of the department, which has prevailed for very many years, when the valuation of securities comes to be made at the end of the year, the market values at the time the report is made are taken as the basis of valuation. Under present conditions, with the war on, some securities fluctuate very materially. Take a municipal security purchased some years ago when the rate of interest was low. Now that security is gilt edged, there never will be any default; when it matures it will be paid, one hundred cents on the dollar. Under the present system only the price that the security would bring in the market at the present time is allowed by the department. One can
readily see that with the present demand for money, the Dominion Finance Minister himself being a competitor in the money market, the price of money has very materially increased, and the municipal or other security of the company paying a small rate of interest is naturally low-priced; while its intrinsic value remains the same, it has perhaps depreciated ten points or fifteen points in market value, and the company holding that security has deducted from its assets the loss in market value of this security. I rather criticised that method of making the valuation before the war, hut surely it is worthy of consideration at the present time. We might consider whether, under all the circumstances, that rule could not be deviated from as liberally as possible, because the minister can see, perhaps better than any person else, that a young company will show a loss perhaps from the fact that its investments are gilt edged municipal securities, whereas if it had invested in other securities not of the same intrinsic value it might show a gain because of the present fluctuations in the value of such securities. I suggest to the minister that in the framing of his Act he should endeavour to find some means of meeting that difficulty, because the situation may become quite serious if carried to an extreme. At my request, the minister has had a line added at the bottom of the annual report pointing out the reinsurance in foreign countries, so that notice is taken of it; but it is not included in the totals, and people lose sight of that-particularly. a competing agent always forgets to read that line to his prospects.


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Motion agreed to, and Bill read the second time.
. Mr. DOHERTY: I move that this Bill be referred to the Banking and Commerce Committee. As I pointed out, it really is a complement of the Insurance Bill proper, and I think it can be most conveniently dealt with at the same time and by the same committee.
Motion agreed to.

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Bill No. 57, to amend the Business Profits War Tax Act, 1916, Sir Thomas White, read the second time, and the House went into committee thereon, Mr. Blain in the Chair.
On section 2-unimpaired reserve, rest and accumulated profits at beginning of
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accounting period to foe deemed capital pose. The syndicate deposited £10,000 with while used as such:	the Government, £5,000 of which was to be
Wilfrid Laurier: What is the effect of this section?


William Thomas White: When the business profits War Tax Bill was under consideration last year, we determined that it would be just to include as capital, unimpaired reserve and accumulated profits. The question has been raised during the past year foy one or two firms as to whether, instead of determining the amount of capital nt the commencement of the accounting neriod as including capital ordinarily so-called, unimpaired reserve and accumu-,nted profits at that date, the computation "hould not be made also in respect of the profits earned from month to month or even from day to day. When the Bill was under consideration it wa3 regarded as proper to fix the date at which accumulated profits might foe taken as capital as at the beginning of the accounting period. The provision is not a very important one, but it is desirable in order to give effect to the intention of Parliament when the Bill was passed last year.


Wilfrid Laurier: I asked the
question because I have been communicated with foy some firms interested in the matter. They were afraid that under this provision they might have to pay taxes more than once upon the same capital; that there would be overlapping from one year to another. I apprehend that this will not be the case?


William Thomas White: No.


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Section agreed to.
Bill reported-

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Hon. J. D. HAZEN (Minister of Marine and lisheries) moved the second reading of Bill No. 69, to repeal the Ocean Telegraph Act. He said: I explained this proposed legislation when the resolution upon which it is based was under consideration. Under the Ocean Telegraph Act, which was passed m 1913, an agreement between the Governor of Canada and the Universal Radio Syndicate, Limited, was confirmed. Under this agreement the syndicate was to establish one radio station in Canada and one in Great Britain for the transmission of messages at rates not to exceed certain stated amounts, and the Government agreed to issue the necessary license for that pur-
returned to the syndicate when it had expended $50,000, $25,000 of which was to foe expended in Canada. The balance was to foe repaid to the syndicate upon the completion of proper equipment and the satisfactory operation of the stations in the United Kingdom and in Canada, the Government to allow interest on the deposit at the rate which the banks allowed the Government upon its deposits. The syndicate also had the right, under the agreement, to be thereafter incorporated. They made the required expenditure, and $25,000 of the deposit was returned. Owing to the outbreak of war the syndicate was unable to float a company to operate the stations and to acquire the necessary apparatus. The syndicate being in urgent need of money, the Governor in Council, having regard to the value of a second transatlantic radiotelegraph service, and after consultation with the British Post Office authorities, loaned the syndicate, at their request, the sum of $15,000, to bear interest at the rate of 5 per cent and to be repaid on May 1, 1915. An official test of the service which was conducted on January 27, 1915, established that the operating speed and general performance of the station was not up to the standard called for by the agreement. Payment of the balance of the deposit was accordingly withheld. The syndicate is now quite unable to carry out the terms of its agreement, and the Governor in Council has refused to exercise the power under the agreement of purchasing the station, though at present use is being made of the station in Canada, which is situated in Newcastle, N.B. It is now proposed to repeal the Act and to return to the syndicate the balance of the deposit, less the amount due for the loan made foy the Crown.
There are only two sections in the Bill, one repealing the Act and the other authorizing the return of the amount of the deposit now in the hands of the Government. The company is now in the hands of a receiver, but the Marconi Company have made arrangements with the receiver to take over the station, thoroughly equip it and make it first-class in every way. Before doing so, however, they wish us to repeal this Act, to relieve the station of any lien we may have upon it, and to return the balance of the deposit which is in our hands. To accomplish this is the purpose of the Bill.
Rodolphe Lemieux: Mr. Speaker, personally I am glad that this

friend, and 1 will support it very cheerfully. The Marconi company has an excellent reputation throughout the world, and I believe the Marconi system, firmly established in Canada as it is in Europe, will result in giving cheaper rates for the transmission of messages between America and Europe. I am not surprised that the Poulsen system has not been a success. When that legislation was introduced in 1913 by the former Postmaster General, Hon. Mr. Pelletier, I ventured to predict that he was moving too quickly in the matter, and that the Poulsen system, from what I had heard in Europe at the time I was negotiating for cheaper cable rates, was far from being up to the mark. He chose, however, to proceed with his legislation, and he promised us wonders as the result of the establishment of that system in Canada, but the net result of his efforts have been that we have had no system at all and that there has been the old cable monopoly. The Marconi system will, I believe, be a real benefit, and will tend to bring about a reduction in the rates. We need competition in this regard. The Administration of which I formed part, is responsible for the reduction in cable rates which took place between Great Britain and Canada. It was at our request that the cable companies gave first the cheap rates for the press, secondly the cheap week-end rates, and thirdly, the deferred cables, which also mean a reduction in the rates; but I said that at that time that if we could make arrangements with the Marconi company, we would create such a competition in Canada in the rates between Canada and Great Britain that before long the consumers would feel that the expense of corresponding by means of Marconigraan or cablegram was not too great.
I am glad that this matter has been transferred from the Post Office Department, which apparently has no head at the present time, to the care of the Minister of Marine and Fisheries, because he is most progressive and he stands very firmly for British connection, and one of the aims I had when I advocated cheap cable rates was the promotion of closer connection between Canada and the Mother Country. We have in Western Canada especially, and also in Eastern Canada, a large proportion of British immigrants, and this country will, in the years to come, receive a large influx of immigrants from the British Isles. Although the postal rates have been increased on account of the war, they will be reduced again to
the penny standard; and whilst we have cheap postal rates, yet for the benefit of our British immigration we should have cheap Marconi and cheap cable rates also. One of the men who worked most energetically in favour of those cheap rates was the late Sir John Henniker Heaton who sat for 24 years in the British House of Commons, and who was called the Postmaster General-at-Large of the British Empire. Through his efforts and through the efforts of my predecessor, Sir William Mulock, penny post was established, and afterwards the question of cable and Marconi rates came before the Imperial conference each time it met. The House will remember that on many occasions resolutions more academic than practical were adopted by the House, and I do not know whether at the conference which the Prime Minister attended this year a similar resolution was adopted to that adopted on previous occasions. At all events this is a step in the right direction, and I hope my hon. friend in granting this privilege to the Marconi company will see to it that the work is proceeded with, that the rates are duly controlled by him, and that such measures are taken that the consumers in Canada shall benefit by those rates.
I happen to know-the gentlemen who are interested in the Canadian Marconi Company, and I may say that they are most responsible, they belong to the best elements in our business community; and I dare say that under their leadership we shall have before long a really cheap rate for correspondence by means of Marconi-gram between Canada and Europe, and that in this' way we shall establish a competition which will bring the cable companies to their senses.


Mr. W. F. MACLEAN (South York):: Mr. Speaker, I remember when the legislation was introduced in this House by the late Postmaster General, and I heard my hon. friend (Mr. Lemieux) address the House on that question. I also spoke, and I took the stand then that, instead of making a deal with this private company, we should devote our efforts and our energies to the establishment of a cheap state-owned or Empire-owned cable system with a view to a better service between the mother country and America. I said further that I had no doubt at that time that this company, which had entered into an arrangement with the Government which arrangement has now fallen down, was, at bottom, in alliance with the great cable monopoly that

controls the service in every part of the world.


Rodolphe Lemieux: That is quite possible.


William Findlay Maclean: A report has been presented by the commission, of which the Minister of Trade and Commerce (Sir George Foster) is a member, in favour of an Imperial cable system. We have such a system now between Australia and Canada, and for years we have been asking for an Empire-owned system between Canada and the mother country, and all the time somebody is putting it off. This proposal which was introduced some years ago and which has now failed according to the statement made here to-day, has proved this, that it was for the purpose not of giving good service, but of blocking for a time a publicly-owned service.
Instead of adopting the report of the Koyal Commission we are now dealing with another privately-owned company; the problem will never be solved in that way. ^ I think the minister in introducing this legislation should acquaint the House with the report made by the Royal Commission, of which Sir George Foster was a member. The report shows that by reason of the war and the increase in trade there should be an Atlantic cable owned by the. state. That is where the paying traffic is. Whenever anybody proposes public ownership of a public utility the invariable answer is: Try it out in some outlying place. We tried out a cable on the Pacific at great cost to Canada and the other contributors to the proposal, though ultimately, I believe, it proved successful. Canada owes it to herself, and the Mother Country owes it to herself, to have no more transactions with privately-owned cable companies, but immediately to build our own cables, or as soon after the war as possible. If we are in a position to-day to hold our own in this war and control the cables, it is not because of any prevision on the part of Canada or the Mother Country. Most of our cables are privately-owned, but they happen to land in the Mother Country, and very properly the Mother Country has taken possession of them. I think it is the case that the cables of the world are practically owned by a large corporation in the United States, probably the same corporation that controls the Bell Telephone. The great menace to the world to-day, especially in these times of war, is that the entire cable service is in the hands of private corporations. It has been repeatedly brought 'to the attention of the House that it would 
be in the interests of Canada and the cause we have at heart to bring .these utilities under public ownership. I pointed out many years ago that the greatest monopoly in the world at that -time was the Eastern Cables Company when it was controlled from England. It had great influence with the bankers' institutions and with the British Government, and in every other direction. There would always be two or three directors who were ministers of the Crown in the Mother Country. Up to to-day that company has absolutely succeeded in preventing the inauguration of an Empire-owned cable between the Mother Country and Canada. There are cables to-day between Canada and Newfoundland and the Mother Country (but they are owned by the great monopoly which is controlled from Boston ,and no effort is being made to break that monopoly. It is practically the strongest in the world to-day, stronger, perhaps, than the metal combine with headquarters in Germany.


Mr. A. K. MACLEAN:: There are two or three cable companies; are they all under one control?


William Findlay Maclean: They are all under one control. There is a telephone, a telegraph, and a cable monopoly in the United States, and they are all under one management, and that management is outside of the Empire although they do the Empire's business. We are continuing to trifle with this question. I wish I had the report of the Royal Commission here. Has the minister a copy of it?
'Mr. HAZEN:	Not here.


William Findlay Maclean: It was distributed in blue-book form to the members only the other day. In any event the commission reported in favour of an Imperial cable service. We all know that the merit of a publicly-owned cable service is that it gives a wide service at cheap reates; it does not exist to make profits, but the privately-owned cable has been used largely for profits and not for service.
I approve of what the hon. member for Rouville (Mr. Lemieux) did when he was Postmaster General to get a reduction in cable rates, but he did not proceed in the right way, and we are npt proceeding in the right way to-day. If we wish to serve the Empire we must get control of the cables. There is cheap telegraphy in parts of the world to-day because of State ownership, and if we wish to strengthen the Empire and

bind it together I know of no more effective way than a state-owned cable system, for the reason a cheap cable service is of great importance in the forming of public opinion. What is the ruling force in the world to-day, and what will be the Tuling force when this war is over? It is public opinion. And you can only get an immediate transfer of world-wide public opinion by a cheap cable service placed at the disposal of the press for the transmission of news and of opinion. But we have not got it yet. For some reason there is always some private company coming along to paralyze the effort for a national system of cables. What I said when this matter was first introduced in the House is confirmed by the report of the Royal Commission, which has reported in favour of a' world-wide system of state-owned cables. At present we are dealing with the Marconi Company. That may be a good company, but it has been on the boards a great number of years now, and it has spent a great deal of money, and you never know when they may fall into the hands of a bigger combine. There is no protection to the public' at all, except the splendid protection afforded by control of the landing stations.
What was done in the United States? There was a great wireless system' direct between Germany and the United States. Probably it was privately owned. Some sort of censorship was exercised over it by the American Government, but nobody knows to what extent that wireless system was used against us, and we never shall know until the war is over. But the day came when the American Government took hold of the landing station and the apparatus in the United States, and that has probably had a great influence on the war. But we are still continuing to deal with private companies; we aTe letting them make money, and every now and' then we get terms and concessions from them, but we are not getting what we ought to get. We talk about winning the war, and taking care of our interests and strengthening our world-wide influence, but we shall not make any headway until we avail ourselves of public ownership of the cables. Until we do that, we have not learned the lesson, and we shall not achieve any substantial results.
Again I urge upon the Government not to be a party in any sense to helping the private companies. Let us have public ownership, public control, and public construction of cables for the benefit of the Empire
and for the benefit of the 'business of this country. It does not cost much to build cables. There is at least one great cable-layer in the service of the cable companies, and probably more, and there are great plants which make a business of manufacturing cables. But they are all in private hands; they are all in collusion; they are all interlocked in one way or another. Perhaps some of the great newspapers have been in the combine. One cable for the relief of the world was started by newspaper influence, but it fell into the hands of the combine. That is the situation to-day.
In this war the great wireless service was in the control of the enemy, the office in the United States was in the control of the enemy, and wireless messages were being sent for the benefit of what proved to be the enemy, and we do not know yet what happened, because the American Government cannot expose what they discovered going on in that wireless service for the benefit of people who proved to be the enemies of the United States. I think that out of this situation, and out of the good understanding which has been reached be-* tween Great Britain and the United States, the time, has come-and this is the time- to have a publicly owned wireless service, and to take advantage of any and every different line of service, to get them into the hands of the State and the Empire. We must prevent an enemy, or a foreign country, controlling this service. The business itself can be best developed by public ownership and public direction, and by making it part of the great system of Imperial communications. That French word " communication " is a good word, in that sense which applies to all this great service, [DOT]and public communications of that kind ought absolutely to be in the control of the post office. I hope we shall soon have the land lines in this country. If there is to be such a service, and a distribution of public opinion daily by means of a cable service, it must be done, not only by state-owned cables, but by state-owned land lines, and right in our own country. We propose to improve the service for our papers by having a state-owned line in Canada, or by the Government leasing the wire from one of the private companies. Why not do away with this roundabout method and be up to-date and progressive, by having public ownership of these things? I have been in this House more than twenty years, and have been advocating public ownership for that length of time, but there is not much headway made yet, and there is no promise


Rodolphe Lemieux: With your leave, Mr. Speaker, I would like to say to my hon. friend-


Mr. SPEAKER:: The hon. gentleman has already spoken.


Rodolphe Lemieux: I know.


Edgar Nelson Rhodes: The hon. gentleman may put a question but he is not permitted to speak again.


Rodolphe Lemieux: I wanted to make an explanation to my hon. friend from South York (Mr. Maclean). My hon. friend seemed a little surprised at my attitude today having regard to the attitude I took when the Ocean Telegraph Bill was introduced a few years ago by Mr. Pelletier, then Postmaster General. My hon. friend states that then I advocated state ownership while to-day I do not offer any objection to a private company. I still stand for state ownership in this matter of cables and if it were not during the war I might perhaps urge upon the Government the necessity of having a state-owned cable under the Atlantic ocean. I wish to say further, that I suspect, as my hon. friend does, that there was some Ethiopian in the fence when that Bill was introduced by Mr. Pelletier. The Poulsen company has no standing in Europe to-day while the Marconi company is the only company that has made any progress in the matter of wireless telegraphy. If I support the Bill introduced by my hon. friend the Minister of Marine and Fisheries, it is because I happen to know the personnel of this company. It is composed of men of substance and men of the highest financial and business standing. I think this country, as all civilized countries, owes a debt of gratitude to Marconi for the many lives he has saved on the wide ocean since he established his system for the equipment of steamships. Mr. Speaker, I am done, but I wish to remind my hon. friend that the rates for cables and wireless will now be controlled by the Railway Commission. The other day, when my hon. friend was away, I moved before the committee revising the Railway Act, that the rates on cables , and
wireless should be under the control of the Railway Commission, the motion was adopted and I hope the recommendation will be adopted by the House. I thank you, Mr. Speaker, for the indulgence.


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Motion agreed to, Bill read the second time and the House went into committee on the Bill, Mr. Blain in the Chair.
On section 1-Ocean Telegraph Act c. 52, 1913, repealed:
William Findlay Maclean: Four years have elapsed since we were promised a great service and this promise has not been fulfilled. What does the Government propose to do? Will the minister having charge of this Bill say whether he has read, or consulted with his colleagues in regard to, the report made by the Imperial Commission on the public ownership of cables?


Mr. HAZEN:: This Bill is introduced after having been submitted to the consideration of my colleagues in Council. It is submitted with their approval, and, as it involves the return of money, it must have, and it has, the approval of His Excellency the Governor General. It simply seeks to repeal the Act of 1913 because the Poulsen company have failed to carry out the agreement they entered into. Their works-on which a very large sum of money has been expended-the company now being in liquidation, are to be taken over by the Marconi company which will make the necessary expenditure to make the plant and appliances efficient, and the work of transmitting cables from Canada to Bally'bunnion on the north-west coast of Ireland will be carried on. It is represented to me by the gentleman who represents the Canadian Marconi, and in whose bona tides I have every confidence, that the company will expend at least $100,000 on improvements to the plant at Newcastle in New Brunswick and another large sum on the improvements to be made at- Ballybunnipn, and they expect within a short time, with the improvements that they contemplate making, to be able to render very efficient service. The passage of this Act will in no way interfere with the consideration of the larger question referred to by my 5 p.m. hon. friend from South York (Mr. Maclean) in regard to Government ownership of a cable line from Canada to Great Britain. As I understand it, the Post Office Department of Great Britain was not willing to consider in 1913, the establishment of another cable, in view

of the amount of money that was involved; but with this wireless system it was hoped that the country would get a system that would be of very great value without costing the country a single dollar. Up to the present time this has not cost the country a dollar and with the improvement to be instituted by the Canadian Marconi company they hope to be able to give an efficient wireless system across the sea. I agree with a great deal of what my hon. friend has said regarding this question, but it does not seem to me that the time when the efforts pf the country are being strained almost to the breaking point for, the carrying on of the war is the time to consider such a large expenditure as would be involved in the proposal suggested. This is one of the great questions that ought tp be considered. I myself am in sympathy with the idea of a cable line between Canada and the Mother Country that would foe owned and controlled entirely by the British and Canadian Governments.


William Findlay Maclean: I have listened with great interest to what the Minister of Marine and Fisheries has said. But, again, I point out to him, with reference to what he has said to the effect that for some reason the Imperial Government was not prepared some years ago tp go into this enterprise because of the expense, that it is the big monopoly that whispers this into the ear of the Imperial Government and every other Government. It urges the enormous expense of gping into this business in order to avoid a disturbance of its monopoly. We were told that four years agp when we struck out the monopoly and when we wanted to get cheaper rates. We have not got them but we have this report now from the Imperial Trade Commissipn which is printed in an English blue-book and the information in which is being circulated through the press. The cost is not so much and the cable will pay from the start if you put it where the paying traffic is. The paying traffic is between America and Europe. It would not lose a dollar. Even if we stepped in and cut the rates in two, the interest on every dollar of the investment would be paid twice over. While I accept the explanation of the minister, I am still looking for some initiative in the direction which we undertook four years ago but in regal'd to which we have not accomplished anything as yet.


[Stage Direction]
Section agreed to.
Bill reported.

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On motion of Hon. J. D. HAZEN (Minister of Marine and Fisheries), the House went into Committee to consider the following proposed resolution, Mr. Blain in the Chair.
That it is expedient to amend the Meat and Canned Foods Act, chapter twenty-seven of the statutes of 1907, as amended by chapter thirty-eight of the statutes of 1910, and to provide, that all flsh and shellfish canneries shall be inspected, and all fish and shellfish packed in cans shall be subject to inspection during the whole course of preparation and packing, and marked- and labelled as prescribed ; that the canning of any particular fish or shellfish unfit for human food may be stopped at any time, and that all fish and shellfish used for canning shall be sound, wholesome and fit for human food, and unsound or unwholesome fish or shellfish may be seized on view by any inspector; that the size and contents of lobster cans and the designation of British Columbia salmon shall ibe as prescribed; that canneries not complying with the law may be closed; that no person shall offer or accept for export or shall export any fish or shellfish subject to inspection unless the requirements of the Act to -be based on this resolution and of the regulations regarding inspection and marking have been complied with, and proof is furnished as to inspection and marking; that all canned fish or shellfish imported into Canada shall be labelled as prescribed, unless imported to be exported again; and that any can of fish or shellfish not so labelled or marked before being offered for sale shall be forfeited and may be seized.
John Douglas Hazen: About two years ago, the
administration of the Meat and Canned * Foods Act, so far as' concerns canned fish and shell-fish, was transferred from the Agricultural Department t-o the Department of Naval Affairs hy Order in Council. It was felt that the carrying out of the operations of the Act so far as concerned fish and shell-fieh would be better done under the administration of the department which has charge of the fisheries. The work has been carried out up to the present time by the fisheries inspectors throughout the country without additional salary. It has been found that in connection with their ordinary duties it is quite possible for them to inspect the different canneries, having regard to the provisions of the Meat and Canned Foods and Fish Act. But our experience during the past two years has shown that. the Act requires a number of amendments to make it adequate for the fish canning business1, and it ie for this purpose that I am asking the House to adopt this resolution and a Bill to be founded on it.


Rodolphe Lemieux: What is the meaning of the reference to the British Columbia salmon?


John Douglas Hazen: The statement that they
are to be as prescribed, means as pre-ecri'bedi in the Bill. That refers to the fact that in British Columbia there are a great many varieties of salmon, the cohoe, the humped back, the spring run and the dog salmon. We are going to change the name of the dog salmon and the humped back salmon. The names by which they are now known have actually had an adverse effect upon their market value. People think that fish with such names must be inferior. We are going to classify them in a different way. In another Bill, to amend the Fisheries Act, we intend to change the name of the dogfish. That fish is an excellent article of food when canned, yet no one will eat it dn our country, and if it were canned and placed on our markets no person would buy it. In the United States they are now canning the dogfish in very considerable quantities as an article for human food. They have changed its name by resolution to the greyfish-it is a fish of a greyish colour-and we propose in a Bill amending the Fisheries Act to change the name of dogfish to greyfish so that there shall be one name in universal use on this side of the Atlantic ocean, a name that will not convey an objectionable idea.
Mr. KY'TE:	Is not the minister perpetrating a fraud upon the public?
(Mr. HAZEN: I do not think so. A rose by any other name will smell as sweet, and I think the dogfish will smell much sweeter as a greyfish than as a dogfish.


Rodolphe Lemieux: Is it not a Shakesperian fraud? What's in a name?


Charles Marcil: Is the minister going to ' authorize the canning of dogfish?


John Douglas Hazen: There is no objection to it under the existing law. The objection is a practical one, that if you can it and ca'l it dogfish no one will buy it.


Charles Marcil: Is there any canning done now under the name of greyfish?


John Douglas Hazen: Very little I think. There have been' some experiments. One beneficial result of the canning of this fish will be to reduce its numbers. It is at present a very serious menace to all other varieties of fish, as it is very voracious, being in fact a small shark.


Mr. SINCLAIR:: Why does the minister propose to specify the size of the lobster
cans? Is that done with respect to other fish?


John Douglas Hazen: I think that the sizes of
cans for other fish are prescribed now.


John Howard Sinclair: Have the lobster canners been consulted?


John Douglas Hazen: Yes. Before the amendments were finally decided upon, copies of a draft Bill were sent to those engaged in the industry and the amendments have been under consideration of the department and-of the Fisheries Advisory Board for nearly two years. Both the department and the board strongly recommend the adoption of these amendments and they have ibeen decided upon in the light of the criticisms received upon the original draft to which I have referred.


John Howard Sinclair: To whom were they
sent?


John Douglas Hazen: I venture to say that all of those engaged in the industry in a large way received copies.
iMr. SINCLAIR:	Have the Fishermen's
Associations made any recommendations to the minister?


John Douglas Hazen: The Fisheries Advisory
Board, of which a large number of fishermen are members, have very strongly reported in favour of the Bill.


John Howard Sinclair: I understand that the Fisheries Advisory Board is a departmental body.	[DOT]


John Douglas Hazen: It is appointed by the
department and is composed of men who, serving without remuneration, meet two or three times a year and consult with the officers of the department with regard to practical fisheries questions.


John Howard Sinclair: Will this proposed legislation require the presence of an inspector in each canning factory?


John Douglas Hazen: It does not involve any additional expense. The work can be done by the' present officers of the department.


Wilfrid Laurier: How can that be, having regard to the terms of the resolution?


John Douglas Hazen: I think that our officials have time enough to do it. I will give more information on that subject later.


Mr. MACDONALD:: In my county we have four fishery inspectors and at this season of the year about 25 factories are in operation. Is it intended that those in-

spectors, within their own divisions, shall assume these duties, in addition to those which they already perform?


John Douglas Hazen: The language of the Bill is not that the factories shall be inspected, but that they shall be subject to inspection during the whole course of preparation and packing. It is open to any inspector at any time to go to one of these factories or canneries and see that the work is being properly done. The Bill does not require that he stay there and watch the whole operation.


John Howard Sinclair: That is his duty now, under the Act.


John Douglas Hazen: It is not the duty of our fishery inspectors now. When the Act was passed it had no reference to inspection under the Canned Poods Act, which was placed under the administration of the Department of Agriculture. Our inspectors were appointed for other purposes. The administration of that portion of the Act which has regard to the fishing trade having been placed under the administration of our department, it is necessary for us to pass an Act giving our inspectors additional power with regard to the inspection of these canneries.


John Howard Sinclair: There are about 150 miles of sea coast in my constituency and along the harbours there are 25 or 30 packing places. Only two inspectors are available to cover that whole length of. coast, and if an inspector were to spend a day or so in each of the factories, about the best he could do would be to call about once a month. Even then he would be doing a great deal of travelling and be kept very busy. The inspection, therefore, will be very perfunctory indeed; inspection during the whole course of packing cannot be done by the present staff of officers.


John Douglas Hazen: They have really done no inspection in the past along these lines.


John Howard Sinclair: The inspector calls at the lobster factories to see that the law is carried out; that the canning place is kept clean, and that seed lobsters are not packed. I do not think that the present staff of officers can do any more than that.


Mr. KYTE:: Were not certain regulations passed by the department some years ago fixing the standard with respect to the equipment and care of lobster factories, and were the inspectors not asked to carry out these regulations?


John Douglas Hazen: I think there was something of that kind.


George William Kyte: This resolution provides that all fish and shell-fish canneries shall be inspected; I assume that that is being done now. While the fishery officers in Nova Scotia are, no doubt, efficient in the discharge of their duties, I scarcely think that they are sufficiently expert to carry out the duties imposed upon them by this resolution. The lobster factories extend over a large territory, and the fishery officers find it rather difficult to get over the ground within the fishing season. I can scarcely imagine that one fishery inspector would be able to carry out very effectively in his district the regulations provided by this resolution. While the employment of additional inspectors for this work is not contemplated by the minister, I assume that he has in mind the increasing of some of the salaries of the fishery officers who are to discharge the duties mentioned in the resolution.


John Douglas Hazen: I shall go more fully into the details when we are in Committee on the Bill. Before the Bill comes to its third reading I shall consider whether it is desirable that this matter be referred to the select standing Committee on Marine and Fisheries. The subject might receive fuller consideration in that way than it would 'be the Committee of the House.
Resolution reported and concurred in.
Hon. J. D. Hazen thereupon moved for leave to introduce Bill No. 73, to amend the Meat and Canned Foods Act.


[Stage Direction]
Motion agreed to, and Bill read the first time.

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On motion of Hon. J. D. Hazen (Minister of Marine and Fisheries) the House went into committee to^ consider the following proposed resolution, Mr. Rainville in the Chair:
Besolved,-That it is expedient to amend the Fisheries Act, chapter eight of the statutes of 1914, and to provide that no one shall operate a fish cannery for commercial purposes without first obtaining an annual license therefor on payment of the prescribed fee; that the provision requiring that in British Columbia the site of any reduction works engaged in the manufacture of oil or other commercial products from sea-lions, sharks or dog-fish, is not to be within fifty miles of any other reduction works used for a similar purpose, shall be repealed; that fish guards in British Columbia, Manitoba, Saskatchewan and Alberta, the Northwest Territories and the Yukon Territory, shall be provided where the minister

may deem necessary in the public interest; that no one shall leave any port or place in Canada to fish outside the territorial waters of Canada for fish the catching of which is at such time prohibited in the territorial waters of Canada opposite to or nearest the place where such person proposes to fish, and no one shall bring into Canada any fish caught outside the territorial waters of Canada when fishing therefor is prohibited inside the territorial waters of Canada opposite or nearest to the place where the same was caught, or shall bring into Canada any vessels, boats, nets, fishing gear, implements or appliances used in such fishing, but the rights granted to the citizens of any foreign nation by any treaty or convention shall not be thereby affected; that the name " dog-fish " shall be changed to "grayflsh," and that when the minister so requests, full and particular returns shall be furnished by every fish-curing or canning establishment or fresh fish business, fishing vessel, weir or trap owners.
John Douglas Hazen: The object of the resolution is to make certain amendments to the Fisheries Act. The first section of the Bill that I purpose introducing has reference to the licensing of fish canneries. It is to be provided by that, that:
No one shall operate a fish cannery for commercial purposes without first obtaining an annual' license therefor from the minister. Where no other fee is in this Act prescribed for a cannery license, the annual fee for each such license shall be one dollar.
At present the Fisheries Act requires salmon canneries and lobster canneries to be licensed; it does not require licenses from any other class of fish canneries. The canning of clams is now being carried on to a small extent, there being, I believe, about half a dozen such canneries in this country. There are a number of sardine canneries, and the canning of haddock, herring and other fish is being conducted in a small way, but gradually growing. The object of this requirement is to have all canneries properly enrolled so that the department can adequately follow their operations. The Meat and Canned Foods Act applies to them, and the fishery officers are required to see that its provisions are carried out. The fee is merely nominal, so that there will be no objection from that standpoint. This requirement was recommended by the Advisory Board, and its object is to place all canneries on the same basis as lobsters and salmon canneries, by requiring them to take out a license and putting them under the control of the department.
The second section refers to the question of fish guards, and that is a subject that applies to the provinces of British Columbia, Manitoba, Saskatchewan and Alberta, the Northwest Territories and the Yukon Territory, where at the present time it is
absolutely obligatory under the Act for all irrigation ditches to be screened. In places where irrigation works are being carried on and irrigation ditches running into streams or into canals, it is necessary that there shall be a screen placed at the outlet* of the irrigation ditch for the purpose of preventing fish from the stream or canal from gbing into the ditch and thereby being destroyed. Several of these ditches are so located that' they are not dangerous to the fisheries, and as screens need to be under constant supervision to prevent their becoming clogged with debris, the existing requirements put the owners to much useless expense and trouble. The amendment leaves the requiring of such screens with the minister, as is the case regarding the fishways in dams throughout the country.


Wilfrid Laurier: Is there any danger of that in the Yukon?


John Douglas Hazen: The Yukon is mentioned as one of the places where there are irrigation works, but I must say that until I saw this memorandum, I was not aware that any such works \<rere being carried on there, and I would not think it was at all likely. As it is now, it is obligatory that these screens be placed in all those ditches, and it has been found that in a large number this serves no good purpose. Therefore, we want the matter to be left so that screens will be put in those ditches where necessary, and that owners of land and ditches where screens are not necessary, shall not be compelled to go to the expense of putting them in.
The object of the third section is to enable the department properly to control regulative fisheries which are partially conducted outside and partially inside territorial waters. Our Act and regulations cease to be effective at the outside limit of the territorial waters, but by preventing boats leaving the shore to fish outside at a time when they may not fish inside, or of [DOT] bringing to shore fish taken outside at a time when such is not permitted inside, the position can be controlled.


John Howard Sinclair: Will the minister state what kind of fish that refers to?


John Douglas Hazen: During certain seasons of the year, there is a close season for lobsters; no one can fish for lobsters during that time within the territorial waters of Canada, that is to say, within three miles from the shore. But there is nothing to prevent any one from going outside the three mile limit and carrying on fishing operations, thereby greatly injuring the



fisheries at a season of the year when lobsters are in what is known as the soft state, that is, when their shells are not completely formed, or when they are breeding.


John Howard Sinclair: Would not those lobsters be liable to seizure when brought into a harbour?


John Douglas Hazen: That is the situation. Up to the moment we have not actually found it impossible to prevent fishermen from fishing outside when they may not fish inside, but such is being talked of more and more, and it is desirable that we should have the necessary power to prevent it. Although we have prevented it there may be doubt that we have the legal power to do so; we want to make really lawful what we have actually been doing for the protection of the fisheries in that section.


Mr. COPP:: Will the minister say whether, under the present law, he is not entitled to seize fish caught outside the three mile limit?


John Howard Sinclair: Men are constantly being fined for having lobsters in their possession out of season.


John Douglas Hazen: There is very grave doubt as to our right to seize such fish. The next section refers to dogfish. Dogfish is now admitted to be a good fish, but its name is against its being commonly used. In the United States the name has been legally changed to "gray-fish," and it seems desirable that this name should be adopted in Canada as well.
The next section is to assure the obtaining of' correct statistical information. All the information contemplated is at present being procured by the fishery officers, but as it is not obligatory on those engaging in the industry to furnish it, sometimes it happens that it is delayed or that difficulty is experienced by the officers in procuring it. There is nothing new in the information asked for, the provision merely making it obligatory that such information shall be furnished so as to enable the officers to get it without trouble. So far as the lobster fishery is concerned, such information has been for years required by law, but it is not required by law with regard to other fisheries.
The last section is merely to harmonize the section with section 4 hereof,-by substituting the name "grayfish" for "dogfish."
It might be desirable also to have this Bill referred to the Committee on Fisheries, so that perhaps more careful consideration [Mr. Hazon,3
might be given to it than is usually accorded a Bill in Committee of the whole House.


John Howard Sinclair: Is there any scientific reason for this name? Is there not a fish called the grayfish?


John Douglas Hazen: There is a grayling, which is a small sporting fish, and is caught, I believe, quite extensively in the streams and lakes of British Columbia. Then there is a fish found in New- Brunswick, in Loch Lomond, as to which scientific opinion is divided as to whether it is a grayling or originally a salmon, that got locked in those waters and has since deteriorated in size. This new name has been adopted in the United States.


John Howard Sinclair: How are you going to compel people to use this name?
Mr. HAZEN.- I think they will soon get the habit.


John Howard Sinclair: Do I understand that the regulation as to the quantity of fish caught is to be compulsory?


John Douglas Hazen: The idea is to make it compulsory. I will read the section as proposed:
The owner or manager of every fish curing or canning establishment or fresh fish business, and the captain or owner of every fishing vessel, and the owner of every fishing boat, fishing trap, weir or other fishing instrument in Canada, shall, at the request of the minister or a fishery officer, furnish a true return covering the period specified by the minister or such fishery officer, of the whole or any one or more of the following particulars :-
(a)	All fish caught;
(b)	All fish bought;
(c)	All fish packed or canned;
(d)	The value of the fish caught, bought, packed or canned;
(e)	The number of fishermen employed;
(f)	The number of shore -workers employed ;
(g)	The number and value of the fishing vessels and boats employed ;
(h)	The quantity and value of fishing gear used ;
(i)	The number and value of buildings * and fixtures used ;
(j)	Such other details and particulars as may be required by the minister or such fishery officer.


John Howard Sinclair: Is any penalty provided for not filling in the return?


John Douglas Hazen: There is a provision in the Fisheries Act providing penalties for violations of the law, and I think that would cover the case my hon. friend mentions.
I may say that these changes are recommended by the fishery offioers.


John Howard Sinclair: Has this information to be given under oath before a magistrate?


John Douglas Hazen: There is no provision at
present requiring the information to be given under oath.
Resolution reported, read the first and second time, and concurred in.
Mr. HAZEN thereupon moved for leave to introduce Bill No. 74, to amend the Fisheries Act.


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Motion agreed to, and Bill read the first time.

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Hon. J. D. .REID (Minister of Customs) moved the second reading of Bill No. 67, to amend the Customs Act.
Edward Mortimer Macdonald: May I .ask whether the Government of Manitoba have been advised of the intention to introduce this- measure, and whether there has been any correspondence with them in regard to it? Otherwise, it -seems to me, this Parliament should not be called upon to take away from the provincial government of Manitoba the legal right which it now possesses. The enactment of retroactive legislation of any kind is objectionable, and can only be justified in extreme cases for the purpose of removing an injustice of .some sort. I think that retroactive, legislation which expressly declares its intention to be the taking away of existing legal rights should be most carefully considered. The Crown in Tight of the province of Manitoba has -certain privileges and rights, and has had them ever since Confederation. Speaking the other night my hon. friend said that a certain practice had grown up and that the question of the legal status of the province in regard to payment of duties to this Government had not been raised. One can very readily understand that. In early Confederation days public ownership of public utilities was not thought of, and the imports of any one province for any particular purpose would be infinitesimal, and naturally the question of the payment of duties- would not be raised. But as the years went on the provincial governments assumed various powers, and their importations have necessarily increased. In Manitoba, for instance, they have a government telephone system, and the whole trend of legislation, particularly in the West, has been in the direction o-f governmental control; consequently there have been importations 1344
of goods which in the older days would not have been thought of. So much for the general principle.
My hon. friend also told us in the dbbate on the resolution that the Manitoba government and two other provincial governments had previously raised the quesiton, and that again recently the Manitoba government had expres-sly a-sserted that they were not called upon to -pay these duties, and that there was no right under the law to make them pay thfcm. This Bill expressly takes away from them their right of action.


Mr. REID:: Oh, no.


Edward Mortimer Macdonald: Then what is the
object of the Bill? I rose more particularly for the purpose of ascertaining whether this legislation was being passed behind the back of the province of Manitoba. I certainly think the Attorney General of the province should have been notified; the ordinary courtesies as between governments require that that should be done.


Charles Joseph Doherty: This Act is declaratory, and, so far as it i-s declaratory, it declares what the law was in the past, and I suppose, therefore, may have applied to it the word " retroactive." The hon. gentleman complains of this provision being made retroactive, and he explains, in his argument in support of his attack on the retroactivity of this measure, precisely why there should -be no objection to the retroactive provision. This measure is retroactive only -in so far as it enacts -that the Customs Act is to be read as applying to the Crown. It is not retroactive at all in any other respect.	,


Edward Mortimer Macdonald: That is a pretty important respect.


Charles Joseph Doherty: That happens to be the point which this province raised, or on which it contended it was not liable. The hon. gentleman says they did not do it in the past, because they had small importations, and it was not worth while. It is only as to the past that it will be retroactive. It is not retroactive for the growing commerce, which is coming in the future. The hon. gentleman claims there was not any object in raising the question in the past. It is only as to those cases in the past where the provinces themselves, as the hon. gentleman explained, did not think it worth while to raise any question, that this enactment will be retroactive. All that it will do, in so far as it is retroact-



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ive, will be to prevent the province raising a question they never thought about raising for the purpose of recovering hack from the Dominion money which they paid voluntarily. They quite acquiesced in the right of the Government to collect this money. The real, substantial question which arises between the provinces and this Dominion is whether there is power in Parliament to impose customs duty on importations made by the Crown in the right of the province. Who is right or who is wrong in that question will not be affected in the slightest 'degree in this legislation; because, as I pointed out the other evening, we shall have no .more power to impose taxation on the Crown, if this be taxation, and we shall have no more power to collect customs duties from the Crown in the right of the province-if that power is vested in ns under the British North America Act- because we mention it here, than we had before. As regards the substantial question at issue between the provinces and the Dominion, this legislation will not alter the position one iota. If, before this legislation. Parliament had no power to impose duties on imports into the provinces, it will have no right now. . The purpose of this legislation, so far as it is to take effect in the future, is to place the question beyond doubt, that to the extent that Parliament has power, it is exercising that power to impose duties upon importations by the Crown. The retroactivity of the measure produces only this result: that the province will not be entitled to demand a refund upon a ground that it never dreamt of raising, and which it has not raised to the present day, but bases the argument upon the purely technical pretext that the Crown was not mentioned in the statute. The province will not be entitled to demand from the Government a refund of the customs duty, which, in the past, the province has paid, as the hon. gentleman says, because the duties were not worth talking about. I do not know whether that is correct or not. Whatever their reasons were, in the past they paid voluntarily, without raising any question.
John Howard Sinclair: Has Manitoba refused to pay the customs duty?


Charles Joseph Doherty: Manitoba proposes to bring in certain merchandise, and claims that it conies in free of duty. The contention of the province of Manitoba will not be affected in the slightest degree by the retroactivity of this legislation. I am

informed by the Minister ot Customs that that is what has taken place just now, and it will be covered by the Act when it becomes law. So that this bugbear of retroactivity amounts simply to this: we come now to provide-and in our opinion it is necessary-that our duties should attach.to the importations of the Crown, and especially mention the Crown, in order that, when we are dealing with this particular matter, the provinces will not be enabled to say to us, "Technically you had no right, because the Act did not mention the Crown, and we want our duties back."


John Howard Sinclair: Have any of the provinces imported any goods duty free in the past?


Charles Joseph Doherty: So far as I can ascertain, duties were paid upon whatever dutiable goods the provinces imported, and they raised no question until this particular point came up, save on one occasion, in 1909, and at that time the contention on the part of the Government making the claim was not accepted by the then Government of Canada, and, if I understand rightly, they submitted to the law. They have always paid duties'in the past. .


Rodolphe Lemieux: Does my hon. friend not think, in view of the apparent conflict that would exist between the federal and provincial authorities in this connection, that some time should elapse before the Bill is passed, and that there should be some official correspondence between the various provincial government so as to apprise them of the danger?


John Dowsley Reid: I do not think we should
[DOT]postpone the operation of the Act for that reason. The provincial governments, when they were importing goods, claimed that under section 125 of the British North America Act, they should not pay the customs duty. We replied, of course, taking issue with them as was done in 1909 and again in 1916. They then asked for a fiat. I am advised by the Justice Department that there should be a provision that goods imported by the Crown are dutiable, and it has been the practice for many years to treat them as dutiaible. The Dominion Government has been importing goods and duties have 'been collected for a number of years, but still the law' does not say the Crown shall pay duty, and the same system has been in force, in so far as the provincial governments are concerned since Confederation, and yet there has never been a provision in the Customs Act that the Crown

should pay duty. As I understand, the issue is now being raised. It made no difference, so far as the Dominion Government was concerned, if any question were raised, because it would be one department as against another, but now the provincial governments, which are the 'Crown also, raise the issue, and, as I understand it, the issue will be tried ont in the courts.
It is the duty of the Dominion Government to put itself in a proper position when the issue comes before the courts. Then, when we have on our statute book the provision that goods imported by the Crown for the Dominion or the provincial governments are liable to customs duty, the question will be tried out before the Privy. Council as to whether we have the right to collect customs duties on goods imported 'by the Crown in the right of the provincial government.


Rodolphe Lemieux: You want to bar action by the provincial governments?


John Dowsley Reid: No, they havg the right to take action without the consent of the Dominion Government. This does not prevent them going on with their action exactly the same as if the statute had not ibeen passed. But the Privy Council will decide whether we can legally collect t'he duties after having placed on the statute book a provision that provincial governments are liable.


Edward Mortimer Macdonald: Although you admit that you cannot collect now because the Crown was never mentioned in the Tariff Act.


John Dowsley Reid: I do not admit anything of the kind. I say that we can, but at the same time they have raised the issue that we cannot. To put ourselves in a proper position when the-issue is raised before the courts we ask that a provision be put on tjie statute book that the Crown is liable for duty.


Edward Mortimer Macdonald: And that it has always been liable?


John Dowsley Reid: As far as the retroactive part of it is concerned, if the Privy Council decides that the British North America Act entitles us to collect duties on goods imported by a provincial government for the reason that we have inserted in the Act a provision that they are liable, then the provincial government may come back with a claim from Confederation up to the present time, because at the time of Confederation we had not mentioned in the Act that the Crown should be liable for duty. The British North America Act. having been
interpreted by the Dominion and provincial governments in a certain way up to the present time, and no one ever having raised the question that is raised now, if the Privy Council decides that we have that right, it does not seem fair that the provincial government should then come along with an action simply because it was not inserted in the Customs Act at the time of Confederation that the Crown should be liable.


Wilfrid Laurier: The question seems very simple. I remember a case that arose in the time of the late Government. The question was raised by one of the provincial governments as to whether they were liable for duty on goods imported by them. They claimed that they were exempt. We thought that in these modern days the Crown, like everybody else, should pay duty. The provincial government paid and the matter rested there. This Bill is to make it clear and certain that the Crown is liable, like every one else?


John Dowsley Reid: That is it.


Wilfrid Laurier: Very good; I agree with the Bill altogether, but if you have collected moneys in the past illegally, or if you have exercised powers which you ought not to have exercised under the law, what reason is there why you should not refund the money? You cannot keep the money that you are not entitled to. The Government cannot give such a bad example to the community.
At six o'clock the House took recess.
After Recess.
The House resumed at eight o'clock.
Motion agreed to and Bill read the second time, and the House went into committee on the Bill, Mr. Rainville in the Chair.
On section 1-Duties payable on Crown's goods.


Mr. PUGSLEY:: I would suggest that
my hon. friend allow the Bill to stand. The title of the Bill as introduced gives no indication of its purport; it is called simply a Bill to amend the Customs Act. If the minister -intituled it a Bill to take away the rights of those provinces who have paid customs duties oil goods imported for the Crown in respect of the provinces, that would have given some indication of its purport. But who would imagine that in a Bill to amend the Customs Act this retroactive provision would he inserted, intended to take away rights which may have accrued during the last fifty years, ever since Confederation

I do think my hon. friend would be well advised to allow the Bill to stand for a short time in order to give an opportunity for the provinces interested to jpe heard* I am told by the hon. member for Pictou (Mr. Macdonald) that he has communicated with the Government of one of the provinces affected, but there has not been time to obtain a reply. It may be that no objection will be made, but it is a serious matter to pass retroactive legislation. The Prime Minister seemed to recognize the other niglpt the force of that objection and said he would think it over and see whether our views could be met. The difficulty about retroactive legislation is that while it may not do any particular injustice in the present case, perhaps ten years from now somebody may come to Parliament with some measure retroactive in its character, and when objection is made it may be said: why in the Parliament of 1917, with a careful member like the Minister of Customs, retroactive legislation was introduced; the Prime Minister approved of it, it must be all right, as he would not think of doing anything wrong. It has a bad effect, it is injurious and unwise legislation which should never be resorted to except where it is absolutely neccessary in the public interest.
Sir THOMA'S WHITE:	It is not bad
legislation in this case.


William Pugsley: It is in this case. My hon. friend says it is necessary in the public interest to take away the rights of the provinces. I cannot agree. I would likp to agree with the Minister of Finance but I cannot in this case. Am I to understand that the Prime Minister has not given favourable consideration to the objections made? If it is intended to press the Bill through the committee to-night, I shall feel it my duty as one member to interpose any possible objection that can be raised.


John Dowsley Reid: I explained the situation just before six o'clock when the hon. member was not in. I have discussed the measure with the Prime Minister since it was up a short time ago and with the Justice Department again, and we feel that it is not doing an injustice to the provinces. Let me again explain the Bill as I understand it. This is an old question. In 1909 the Customs Department heard of this matter for the first time, when the deputy provincial secretary of the Nova Scotia Government addressed a letter to the Prime Minister in which he raised the question. He said:

I am directed by the Provincial Secretary to inform you that the customs authorities here have been claiming and collecting duties on goods belonging to and imported by the Government of Nova Scotia. It is submitted that the property of the Crown as respects the province is not subject to taxation, and the Provincial Secretary would be glad to have your views on the question.
The following reply was sent to the Provincial Secretary by the Commissioner of Customs:
I have the honour to acknowledge the receipt of your letter of the ISth instant respecting customs duties on goods belonging to and imported by the Government of Nova Sootia. In reply, I am to state that goods imported by or for the Provincial Government are subject to duty under the Customs tariff.
We heard nothing more about it until last year when the question was again raised" by the Quebec government and the same reply was sent to them. The matter rested there for a while, when the Manitoba government raised the question and we took the same stand, in each case having laid the matter before the Department of Justice. Now lately the Alberta government-


William Pugsley: Have they been notified of this legislation?


John Dowsley Reid: Not of this legislation, no.


William Pugsley: You propose to take away their rights without notice?


John Dowsley Reid: 
William Pugsley: Therefore they have
been illegally collected on two grounds.


John Dowsley Reid: Not necessarily. We say not illegally. We interpret section 125 of the British North America Act as meaning that the provinces are not entitled to import goods free of duty. The reason we want this legislation is to have it in the Act that the Crown must pay duty. Then, when the case comes before the Privy Council, that is one point that must be decided, whether a provincial government is liable for duties under the Customs Act.


William Pugsley: That is all right for the future.


John Dowsley Reid: Yes. As for the past, from
Confederation up to the present, that is the. interpretation which both the Dominion and the provincial governments have placed upon section 125. Nova Scotia did raise the question in 1909, but immediately dropped it.
Mr. PUGSLEY.:	Alberta and Manitoba
have raised it.


John Dowsley Reid: They are raising it now. If it is decided that we are within our rights in collecting duties upon goods imported by,the provincial governments, as we have done since Confederation, the provinces have no right to ask that they be reimbursed for the duties that we have collected in the past.


William Pugsley: Their claim might be
supported on two grounds, one of which you wish to legislate from under their feet.


John Dowsley Reid: The Justice Department advised me strongly that this is the position we should be in if the matter goes to the courts.


William Pugsley: We assume that the gentlemen who occupied the position of Minister of Justice in the past- were aware of that most ordinary principle of law that the Crown is not bound -unless it is expressly named. Parliament has never provided that the Crown as represented by the provinces should pay duty on goods imported by the provinces. Parliament, therefore, has recognized that under the Act of Confederation it is not right to compel the provinces to pay customs duties. The right of the provinces to reimbursement would rest on two grounds:	First, that Parliament had no authority under the British North America Act to impose (the tax; second, that Parliament during the fifty years since Confederation has not imposed
the tax. The question is about to toe raised in a court, and the minister is frightened. He thinks that, although the provinces may be wrong in their interpretation of the provisions of section 125 of the British North America Act, yet, because Parliament never provided that the Crown should pay taxes, the province^ may [DOT]be entitled to recover their money. He asks the Minister of Justice, therefore, how to get around this. The Minister of Justice says: a very easy way to do it is by passing retroactive legislation taking away the rights of the provinces and declaring that the position shall be as if fifty years ago Parliament had made the Crown in the right of the provinces liable to the payment of customs duties. The minister purposes doing this without setting forth in the title of his Bill anything indicating its design' and without giving the public the slightest intimation of what the proposed legislation is intended to accomplish. Nor does he notify the parties to the litigation of what is proposed.


John Dowsley Reid: There is no litigation.


William Pugsley: My hon. friend says that some of the provinces applied for a fiat; does that not mean litigation? A person having a claim against the Crown presents a petition to the Minister of Justice asking for a fiat. If the Minister of Justice thinks the case should be dealt with in the Exchequer Court, he recommends to the Gov-erno/ General the granting of a fiat. The fiat is granted, and the proceedings aiie thereby commenced. If this were a matter as between private parties, Parliament would never intervene by passing legislation without giving both parties an opportunity of being heard. Yet the minister, because his party has a majority in this Parliament, proposes arbitrarily to take away the rights of the provinces by enacting this retroactive legislation, without the provinces having the slightest intimation of what is intended or the slightest opportunity of being heard. 'This proposed legislation is of a most objectionable character, and should not be passed. If my hon. friend's whole desire is to raise the question, let him enact this law for the future; then if the provinces import any goods they will have to rely solely upon the provisions of section 125 of the British North America Act. Any other course than this is absolutely unjustified, and I am sure would not have been recommended to Parliament by any Minister of Justice in the past.


Charles Joseph Doherty: There never was a case which more clearly called for retroactive legislation, or more amply and completely justified such a course, than this. I should like to take my share of the indignation which the hon. member for St. John has poured upon the Minister of Customs. In justice to the Minister of Customs, I may say that he did not come to me and ask me for a way around this. I am entirely responsible for the suggestion of the legislation that has been condemned in such unmeasured terms-and I am not in the least ashamed. The provinces never raised this question at all; never suggested it; never had it present in their minds.


Edward Mortimer Macdonald: How could you tell?


Charles Joseph Doherty: If they did, they kept it in their minds and concealed it. They put forward only one contention: that they were not liable to pay duties under section 125. In the correspondence looking to a fiat or to some other method of legal proceeding, they never suggested this ground in the slightest degree. Since Confederation, Customs Acts have been passed applicable to all importations without exception. Importations by the Crown were not specifically mentioned, but, notwithstanding that fact, the Crown in the right of the Dominion clearly understood and admitted that the duties applied to themselves and to the Crown in the right of the provinces, and the provinces as clearly understood that, because they paid the duties without demur.


William Pugsley: Is it not true that it is only within the last few years that the Crown in the right of the Dominion has begun to pay customs duties, and was it not a matter of expediency so as to show what were dutiable goods that came into the country? I venture to say that for forty years the Crown in the right of the Dominion never paid a cent of duty.


Charles Joseph Doherty: I am told that about, ten years ago the Crown in the right of the Dominion began to pay customs duties. I referred to the Crown in the right of the Dominion having paid, but it is not from that that I deduce that the Crown in the right <jf the Dominion believed they had a right to impose the duties. I believe they so understood from the fact that they collected the duties. Of course, the Crown in the right of the Dominion paying the duties is a mere formality in any event; that is a matter of the Crown in the right of the Dominion taking money out of' its right hand

pocket and putting it into its left. As to the question between the Crown in the right of the Dominion and the Crown in the right of the provinces, there is just one Crown after all, and the distinction is one between the Dominion revenue and the provinces being subject to contribute to that revenue.


William Pugsley: Is not the ground upon which the courts found that where the Crown is not expressly named in an Act of Parliament, the Crown is not bound, based upon the idea that Parliament did not intend to include the Crown?


Charles Joseph Doherty: That is what it is based upon.


William Pugsley: It was not the intention of Parliament to include the Crown.


Charles Joseph Doherty: I assented when the hon.. member said he assumed, but actions speak much louder than mere assumptions, and the hon. gentleman says that the Ministers of Justice knew that that statement ought to have been in the Act, and that because they did not put it in we must take it for granted that they did, not intend to do so. .Marvellous to relate, we must take that for granted of all of those successive Ministers of Justice with the assent of all the successive ministers, their colleagues, including the hon. member for St. John (Mr. Pugsley), who sat in a Government the Prime Minister of which authorized the writing of a letter, in 1909, to say that those duties were legally collectable and refused to recognize the claim of the provinces. It is a serious imputation of bad faith upon the gentlemen who conducted themselves in that way for the hon. member to say: Oh, they knew all the time, and they fully intended all the time that there should be no liability. I say that their actions talk; I do not make such an imputation upon them.


William Pugsley: I was speaking about Parliament.


Charles Joseph Doherty: The hon. gentleman's distinctions are exceedingly fine. The hon. gentlemen is speaking of Parliament, but when he was speaking of what Parliament intended, he found it necessary, in order to demonstrate what Parliament intended, to fall back upon the argument that the successive Ministers of Justice knew that that statement ought to be in express terms; and that they did not put it in the Act and put the matter to Parliament in that way, therefore, says the hon. gentleman, Parliament deliberately intended not to in-

elude the Crown. Let me point out to him that the actions of all those successive Ministers of Justice shows what is the real fact, that it was the purest and merest oversight. Oversights have occurred in other cases, and I have not the slightest doubt that this was a pure oversight, and the action of all the successive Governments of the Dominion, including all the successive Ministers of Justice, show that it was an oversight ; that they were not doing what the hon. gentleman said; that they were not, with the knowledge that omission left the Crown out, asking Parliament to pass Acts that were not to apply to the Crown. What happened was that there was this oversight, but the whole line of action shows that the intention was that those duties should be applied; and it is as fair to assume that Parliament knew that those duties were being applied, as it is to assume an intention based upon a purely technical rule of law, and, I think, will bring us to the truth. The matter was one of public notoriety; everybody knew it and everybody acquiesced in it. We must assume that successive attorneys general of the provinces knew that very simple rule, and still the provinces all acquiesced in it, and everybody recognized that this was a proper thing to ask for on the part of the Dominion Government and a proper thing to pay on the part of the provinces. And, now the hon. gentleman rises in indignation


Edward Mortimer Macdonald: The minister is aware in making his argument, which will practically serve as an estoppel, that it was not until 1895 or around that date that it was settled as a matter of law that the Crown existed is connection with the provincial Government. It was not until the maritime bank case was decided Dy the Privy Council and it was held that the Crown was present in provincial governments and that the Lieutenant Governors were not merely officers of the provincial governments. My hon. friend's argument, therefore, could not apply until after that was settled.


Charles Joseph Doherty: That is about twenty-two years ago. And in the first place, might I suggest that the judgment of the Privy Council was known. Does the hon. gentleman not think there were some lawyers and some attorneys general and some Ministers of Justice in this country who knew what the law was before the Privy Council came to a decision. The Privy Council did not make law; it decided what the law was, and I myself had the pleasure of
knowing a large number of very distinguished lawyers in this country who had not the slightest doubt that the Crown was a part of the legislatures of the provinces.
It would have been remarkable, seeing that was the law, that we should at that time have produced no lawyers who knew it.


William Pugsley: The Supreme Court of Canada decided the other way namely, that a lieutenant Governor was merely the representative of the Governor General.


Charles Joseph Doherty: The Supreme Court of Canada made a mistake. We. are being condemned because it is to be assumed that every Minister of Justice knew the law and had his mind on it and therefore did a particular thing. That is the argument of the hon. member for St. John. The hon. member for Pictou wants us to be condemned because we must admit that before 1895 all the attorneys general of the different provinces did not know the law or were mistaken about the law. I cannot see any great force in that argument, and I think ' it is a remarkable fact that if their acts rested upon a mistake in 1895, we have never, down to the present day, or to this moment, had a breath of suggestion from the provinces that they were not liable because the Crown was not mentioned in the statute.
They have not suggested that, and it is on their behalf that it is suggested now for the first time in this Parliament. This propossed legislation results from the fact that it was thought wise when the provinces raised one particular contention, resting their claim: entirely upon that, and when because they raised that there was the possibility of our being brought into court, to guard against their ever raising this purely technical ground of which they had never thought and have not raised up to the present day. I entirely fail to see why there is ground for indignation because we propose to "close the door against people coming now with belated claims to recover money which the Crown in the right of the Dominion collected in the past in perfect good faith, and which the Crown in the right of the province paid perfectly willingly. That is all we are seeking to do by the retroactivity of this legislation. To give sanction to what everybody understood to be the law, we are going to declare that the law was what everybody understood it to' he.


William Pugsley: And what my hon.
friend does not think it was.


Charles Joseph Doherty: I think there wae an
oversight. I want to give the hon. gentleman the full .benefit of what he said and repeated a great many times. The provinces may have a right, upon a pure abstract technicality, to recover back money that was collected from them in good faith by the succeeding governments of this Dominion, and which they .paid perfectly willingly and .quite voluntarily. Technically, they may have the right to do that, because what they understood to be the intention of the law, what this- Parliament and the Government of Canada understood to be the intention of the law, was by oversight inadequately expressed. The indignation- is all because these provinces are having the door closed to their raising a claim to recover money that was collected quite honestly and paid without question, always leaving out the question of the power of this Parliament to impose those duties, which does not come into this legislation at all. What we propose to do is simply to give the sanction ^ of this Parliament to everybody's understanding of the law during that long period of years, and not to leave the door open to the questioning of the application of that law so understood merely because there may be a technical ground upon which all these things that were done in the past in. perfectly good faith might be disturbed. That, to my mind, is the ideal case for declaratory or retroactive legislation. This does not prejudice any right of the province in the future. It does not prejudice any rightrof any province to recover anything that it has paid upon the one ground which no. province has ever invoked as entitling it to recover-on the ground that under the British North America Act there is no power in this Parliament to impose the tax.


William Pugsley: My hon. friend seems to forget that the people of these provinces are not estopped by any failure there may possibly have been on the part of their government to assert a right. My hon. friend forgets the principle that the Crown is never estopped.


Charles Joseph Doherty: I never talked about estoppel at all. It was the hon. member for Pictou who interpreted my words as referring to estoppel. I never claimed anything as resting on an estoppel at all.


William Pugsley: I am sure the minister was perfectly well aware that the Crown was never estopped by delay or by laches. [Mr. Pugsley.t
What its rights ever were, unless they have been released in some way, those rights still exist. The minister says that the governments of these provinces legally and properly paid what they ought to have paid, and that the claim that they might recover is purely technical. I fail to understand upon what .ground the minister bases that contention. Either the provinces have the right to this money, or they have not. If Parliament has never imposed a tax upon them, surely their right to recover is not technical. Bear in. mind that' it is not the governments of these provinces who are to be debarred from, their rights by this legislation; it is the people.


Charles Joseph Doherty: It is the people of this Dominion whose rights we want to protect.	-


William Pugsley: It is the people of the provinces who make up this Dominion, and to my mind it is scandalous for the Dominion Government to take advantage of its paramount power of legislation to take away the rights of the provinces. I am surprised that for such a comparatively small amount as is involved, a few thousand dollars, this Parliament will be called upon to exercise its paramount power of legislation and take away a right which may exist on behalf of the people of the provinces. That is not technical; it is substantial, and I care not whether any of these Governments has failed to put its claim on the two grounds. If there are two grounds, the fact that a Government has failed to put its claim on both grounds ought not to prejudice the people of the province. The men who are acting to-day are acting on behalf of the people of those four provinces, Alberta, Manitoba, Quebec and Nova Scotia. Now what have the people of those four provinces to do with the omission on the part of men who happened to be in the Government ten years ago, to put their claim on two grounds? If they have a claim on two grounds, what right has this Parliament to take away the claim, absolutely valid and absolutely legal, which, they may have upon one ground, and say they must rest their case entirely upon the other ground? This Parliament has no right to do that, just because it is allpowerful, and that is the only ground upon which the Minister of Justice can put it. He can say, "We are all-powerful. Under the British North American Act we have the power to take away rights which exist to-day in the provinces; we can alter our

Customs Act; we can pass a law to-day and make it run back for fifty years and say that that which has not been the law for the past fifty years shall by the Act of this Parliament to-night be deemed to have been the law." Yet the minister says that is purely technical. Although the people of these provinces may have the right to get their money back, because, forsooth, some of those who represented them in the past did not put their claim on two grounds, the minister says, "We will deprive them of one ground, which we fear is a perfectly legal and valid ground, and see that they do not recover on that ground at all events," simply because they did not put forward their claim as they might have done.	..
Notwithstanding all my hon. friend ha3 said, I am unable to see why this legislation should be passed. If this Parliament wants to legislate that the provinces shall in future pay duties on goods which they import, let it legislate for the future. Then as to any duties which may be exacted in the future, the provinces will have to rest their claim upon one ground only, namely, upon the provisions of section 125 of the British North America Act. But if they have two grounds which they have a right to avail themselves of in the courts of the land, surely this Parliament ought not to take away their rights. It is proposed to do this without notifying the provinces-doing it behind their backs. This Parliament has no right to do that Retroactive legislation is most objectionable under all circumstances, and can only be justified by the gravest necessity; and surely the mere fact that the Government thinks that there may be a few thousand dollars which, as the result of the litigation may go to the people of these four provinces, is no ground for the Government resorting to an exercise of its power and asking Parliament to pass legislation extending back fifty years.


Rodolphe Lemieux: I am surprised -at the
lack of information on the part of the Government in regard to the concrete cases which brought about this legislation. I quite agree with my hon. friend beside me that this Parliament has full power and authority to state who shall pay the duties, and who shall not pay the duties. I believe that the Crown, in the right of the Dominion Government, could stipulate by whom the duties should be paid, but it seems to me that, when the minister introduces legislation, retroactive in its nature,
the least that we might expect from the Government is that some regard should be shown to the provinces. If there is one thing which the Federal Parliament should avoid it is litigation with the provinces. It seems to me the provincial and Dominion Governments should have most happy relations [DOT] and should avoid conflicts. We all know in the past from what small causes arose the very stringent fights which took place between the Ontario legislature and the Dominion Government. We know how long these cases lasted, that they went to the Privy. Council; in fact, the result of those cases was the creation of a party of provincial rights in Ontario. In such a small matter, when everybody conceives that the Government can state who shall pay the duties, it seems to me we. should avoid giving the legislation any retroactive effect. I do not refer to the correspondence of 1909, but can the minister tell me what were the concrete facts which brought about this legislation? Has, there been notice given by the minister to the various provincial governments that this legislation would be brought down this session?


John Dowsley Reid: I have not given the provincial governments any notice that it was my intention to bring this legislation before Parliament during the present session.


Rodolphe Lemieux: What are the concrete facts which cause this legislation?


John Dowsley Reid: The reason that I am putting the measure through this session is this, as I stated: In 1909 the master came first before the Government of the day, and the right hon. leader of the Opposition, then Prime Minister, took issue. The provincial government did not raise any further question, and the matter dropped. It was then brought up last year by one of the four governments, and I sent the same reply, word for word, that was sent by my predecessor in 1909. The matter again dropped, and .then another provincial government brought the matter up, and the Manitoba Government stated that they wished to take issue with the Dominion Government; that is, they wanted a fiat. Of course, they could proceed in the Exchequer Court, and it would not make any difference whether they got a fiat from this Government or not.


Rodolphe Lemieux: Was there any entry made in the. customs in Winnipeg in regard to this matter?


John Dowsley Reid: Yes, they made an entry.


Rodolphe Lemieux: They imported what?


John Dowsley Reid: They imported a gas producer -that is the way the item is described- in August, 1916. The duties were $404.80, and when it came in they took issue on paying the duties on that machine.


William Pugsley: Has the minister any
record of the grounds on which the Manitoba Government based their objection? Was it simply that they were not bound to ,pay the duty, ,or did they base it on section 125?


John Dowsley Reid: On section 125 of the British North America Act.
, Mr. PUGSLEY: Have you their letter to that effect?


John Dowsley Reid: Yes. The letter reads as fol-. lews:
Winnipeg-, Aug. 23rd, 1916. The Honourable, the Minister of Customs, Ottawa, Canada.
Re Gas Producer Plant at Souris, Man. Sir,-
On the 10th inst. I wrote the Commissioner of Customs, Ottawa, in regard to a charge of $404.80 duty on a gas producer plant which was purchased by the Provincial Government of Manitoba in England and was entered through Souris in Manitoba.
Payment of the $404.80 was made under protest as the contention of the Provincial Government of Manitoba is that no duty is chargeable on said gas producer plant.
The province of Manitoba now wishes to make a formal demand for the repayment of said $40-4.80 from the Dominion Government on the ground that section 125 of the British North America Act prevents the Dominion Government from charging such a duty on such a gas producer plant owned by the Provincial Government.
In case of your refusal to pay back this $404.80 I take it yours department will be glad to have the matter passed on judicially. The province of Manitoba will at once institute proceedings in the Exchequer Court of Canada to recover the said sum paid for duty.
I shall be glad if you will indicate your decision in the matter as early as possible.
1 have the honour to be, -Sir,
Your obedient servant,
John Alien,
Deputy Attorney General.


William Pugsley: Suppose they had two grounds of objection, and only put forward one, surely you would not take away the other ground? The substantial point is that they say they are not liable for the duty. Suppose they have a dozen reasons, and only put forward one, they are entitled when they go to court, to raise the dozen grounds.


John Dowsley Reid: The hon. gentleman asked
why I was putting the legislation through this session. The case referred to arose in

August last, and I submitted the matter again to the Department of Justice, and consulted my colleagues in council. 'The provincial government stated in their letter that they would like to have it tried judicially. I do not want to have it tried judicially, because I take it for granted the matter is settled; but if they do proceed, the Department of Justice says that, in order to have the question tried as to whether we can collect customs duties from the provincial government this provision should be in the Act.


William Pugsley: Is not the real issue whether, under the then existing law, this Government had the right to exact duties from the provincial government? Whether they base their claim on one reason or a dozen reasons there are only arguments that apply.


John Dowsley Reid: We claim that we have had the right to collect these duties since Confederation.*'


William Pugsley: You admit by this statute that you think you had not the right.


John Dowsley Reid: No, we do not; we claim that we have alwaj^s had the right to collect duties under section 125.


William Pugsley: Well, then rest on the law as it is.


John Dowsley Reid: No, I will not rest on the law as it is. I am not a lawyer myself, but as a layman I think I am entitled to my own opinion and it is that in order to have the matter decided in the Privy Council it is just as well, and it will probably assist our case, to have on the statute book the claim that the Crown is liable to duties.
Mr. P.UGSLEY: Of course, that will assist you because you have taken away one ground of action which the provinces had against you.


John Dowsley Reid: Well that is something the Department of Justice arid members of the council think should be done. Why, make it retroactive?-the hon.. gentleman may ask. We are only declaring in the statute tnat the law, as interpreted by the Dominion and Provincial governments since Confederation, has been that the Crown was liable to pay duties.


William Pugsley: This would bar them from their action.


John Dowsley Reid: No; if the Privy Council decide that the provincial governments are not obliged to pay customs duties, no customs duties will be collected, our declara-

lory act will have no effect and they will have a claim for any duties which have been paid since Confederation. On the other hand, if the Privy Council declare that we have a right to collect duties on goods imported by the provincial governments, I do not think that it would be fair that they should have a claim simply because this declaration was not put in the Act at Confederation.


William Pugsley: Then the Bill assumes that you have collected duty illegally?


John Dowsley Reid: I 'do not interpret it in that way because it has been admitted by the Dominion and provincial governments that that is not a proper interpretation but that it is the result of an accident or a technicality.


Edward Mortimer Macdonald: No, it is not a technicality.


John Dowsley Reid: It was a technicality in that it was not put in at that time to make it plainer. However, we are all acting in the interests of the whole people, both the Dominion and the provincial.


William Pugsley: You are not acting very much in the interest of the provincial Governments.


John Dowsley Reid: I do not agree with the hon. gentleman. There is' only one ground of difference in the committee, as far as I can see. There is no objection to this Bill going through and having effect
9 p.m. from the present time onward but the whole objection appears to be that it should not be made to apply to all time since Confederation.


William Pugsley: It should not interfere with existing rights.


John Dowsley Reid: I claim that if the Privy
Council decide that we cannot collect duties from now on, after it has been recognized since Confederation that we were entitled to these duties, it would be better to have this clause put in.


Edward Mortimer Macdonald: It is rather difficult to follow hon. gentlemen- in dealing with this matter. I fail to see where the hon. Minister of Justice (Mr. Doherty) or the hon. Minister of Customs (Mr. Reid), have met the point made by my hon. friend from St. John (Mr. Pugsley). What is the position of the Government on this question as declared by the Minister of Justice? He says: "We have had the right to collect customs duties on goods. imported by the provincial governments from Confederation
.down to date because they have never objected to it until within the last few years." The Minister of Justice, in dealing with the point that I called his attention to, made no answer when I suggested to him that it was only within a period of twenty years-not fifty years-that it has been settled as a matter of law that the Crown is present in the provincial legislatures.


John Dowsley Reid: Previous to 1895, do I understand the hon. gentleman to say, the provincial governments did not consider that they were a part of the Crown?


Edward Mortimer Macdonald: It w*as so urged by those who were advocates of the belief that the Confederation Act had created in this Federal Parliament a certain central authority and that the, governors of the provinces were simply Dominion officials and as such were not authorized to exercise the prerogative of the Crown. It was decided by the Supreme Court of Canada in the case of Lenoir and Ritchie, known as the King's Counsel case, that the provincial governments had no right , to appoint these counsel as the King was not present in the provincial legislatures. So that when my hon. friend says that the provincial governments did not raise this question during the whole period of fifty years, I say it was not until twenty years ago that it was decided absolutely that the Crown did exist in connection with the provincial legislatures. Only then could they be aware that the Crown in right of the province was exempt from the provisions of the law if in the law it was not specially named. My hon-. friend says that if the provinces did not raise this question before they ought not to be permitted to raise it now.


John Dowsley Reid: No, they can raise it now.


Edward Mortimer Macdonald: My hon. friend says that if they do raise it now they ought to be met by an Act of Parliament which declares that for the last fifty years the Crown has contravened the Customs Tariff Act and therefore its right is taken- away. Does the minister propose to pass this retroactive legislation to say that because a particular province did not sit down and prepare what might be called a petition of right, or a statement o-f claim in which their legal position is maintained and set out, they cannot raise the ground and it does not meet the point? If litigation is taken they could raise this ground, together with the general ground that it falls within section 125 of the British North America Act and that there-

fore the duty could not be collected or imposed. They might raise both of these grounds or any other ground that these litigants would have the right to raise. This country has no right to pass retroactive legislation to anticipate the remedy which Manitoba, 6r any other province might seek to have in court, and to declare to have been the law in the last fifty years that which was not the law. It is useless for my hon. friend to say it was a technicality and an oversight. Either it was that the Crown in right of the Dominion for fifteen years deliberately taxed the Crown in right of the province, or it was not. I was surprised to hear the Minister of Justice argue upon that point. The Minister of Justice knows very well that the principle which, declares that statutes do not apply to the Crown unless it is especially named, is not a technical principle at all. Very important and far-reaching rights rest upon that principle. No Parliament from 1867 until to-day has undertaken to declare that the Crown's name should be .mentioned in a tariff Act. If the province of Manitoba wants to import goods, tractors or engines in connection with their agricultural or experimental farms or apparatus for the use of their telephone system or any other public work, they have a right at this moment, as I understand the law, to import them without- having to pay customs duties. My hon. friend by this legislation is coming in to say that, although they had imported such machinery last August, they must pay duty now. That is ex post facto legislation, it is retroactive, and it takes away the rights of the province. For that reason I object to it. I submit further that this question having been raised, as the province of Manitoba is seriously raising it, the minister should have advised the proper authorities of that province of the fa.ct that this legislation was being introduced so that we could discuss, it intelligently and be in a better position to decide whether what appears to be obnoxious and improper retroactive legislation should be placed upon the statute book. I think the request of the hon. member for St. John (Mt. Pugsley), that the Bill should stand over until the views of the governments of Manitoba and Alberta can be ascertained, is well founded.


Daniel Duncan McKenzie: I submit to you, Sir,
and to the Minister of Justice, that the rights of the provinces and the Tights of those who are governed under the British North America Act should be settled by

the courts, if necessary by the Privy Council, through the proper interpretation of the British North America Act, and not by any Act that we might pass in interpretation of it. The rights of the provinces and the rights of the Governors of the provinces are fixed and established by the British North America Act, and it is by the interpretation of that Act that any doubt that may have arisen as to the rights of a province should be determined. We should not attempt to give that Act any twist or turn, or to make it anything different from what it was when it -left the hands of the Imperial Parliament. We should submit it to the courts as it has been submitted in every other case where it has had to be interpreted, in its purity. We should not pass an Act interpreting it and then'send the two to England to be passed upon. I submit that it is no argument to say that because a local Government or any other body has been making a mistake for forty or fifty years they are thereby forced to continue making that mistake, or to continue to pay' out moneys which they should never have paid. I remember a very in; teresfing case in Nova Scotia relating to a lockup at Spring Hill, which was tried before Sir Robert Weatherbee, one of the most distinguished lawyers in this country. The people of Spring Hill had been using a lockup for twenty-five years a building which really never was a lockup. Sir Robert in his facetious way said: It is argued before me that the people of Spring Hill niade a mistake twenty-five years ago; that they fiave persisted in that mistake for twenty-five years, and that therefore it has become legal. Of course he swept the thing aside as being nonsensical and not worthy of legal argument. As Sir Robert Weatherbee then said so, I think we should hold now. The Minister of Justice should advise that it is no argument to say that because the provincial governments took it for granted that any demands made upon them by the Federal Government were right and, without looking into the law, paid the demands made upon them, and then when they came to look into it and found that they were making a mistake during all this time, the Dominion Government could set up what is practically a plea of estoppel.
Returning to the Act itself, the words " tax " and " taxation " are used everywhere where reference is made to the collection of duties. The word " tax " is used in section 91 of the 'British North America Act. In giving the powers of this Parliament, it says:

The raising of money by any mode or system of taxation.
The word "taxation'' is usually under-/ stood in the provinces and elsewhere as the ordinary taxes. When we talk about taxation, we very seldom think of customs duties'. But in the British North America Act, duties are spoken of as a tax; they call it "tax," they do not call it "customs . duties." Then we haVe the power under - section 91 of the British North America Act' to get money by any mode or system of taxation. If that was the only thing in the Act, no doubt we would have power to tax any property that was held in the right of the Crown. But section 125 says:
That no land or property-
The word "property" there includes everything that could be stolen.
No land or property belonging to Canada or any province shall be liable to taxation.
The word "taxation" is used there. In section 125, the word "taxation" has the same meaning exactly as in subsection 3 of section 91; and if we are going back to the intention of Parliament, we must take it for granted that the intention of the Imperial Parliament in the beginning, in 1867 when they passed this Act, was that any property held by' the Crown in right of a province or any property held by the Crown in right of the Dominion, was not subject to any tax whatsoever, either by customs or otherwise. Therefore, if any tax has ever been collected by this Government from the provincial governments upon any property that they may have been importing that ordinarily would be subject to taxation, they were collecting if in good faith, I presume, but by a mistaken conception of the law. I wish to point out to the Minister of Finance, as a constitutional lawyer and a man who has to do particularly with finances, that to me, who do not profess to be a great constitutional lawyer, it is very clear that under the Act the Government has no authority to levy any tax upon any property belonging to the Crown, in the right of either the province or in the Dominion; that subsection 3 of section 91 simply used the word "taxation":
The right of raising of money by any mode or system of taxation.
Therefore, taxation covers everything, any way in which we may get money. If that is all that was in the Act, we could, I suppose, tax anything. Section 125 says:
No land or property belonging to Canada or any province shall be liable to taxation.
The word " property " applies to anything that has tangible existence or value; anything that can be used or appropriated. Instead of giving a long list, therefore, of things exempted, the farmers of the Act used the comprehensive word " property." The gas producing machine or engine that was imported into Manitoba certainly is property and, being owned by the province in the right of the Crown, is exempt from taxation, including customs duties. The Government, then, had no right to collect duty upon it. The proper thing to do when we discover the true meaning of a law is to forget the past and to proceed with a proper administration of that law.


John Dowsley Reid: The hon. gentleman contends that the provincial governments have the right under the law to import goods with out paying duty. When the right hon. leader of the Opposition was Prime Minister, he and his followers took the ground that the provincial governments should pay duty on these articles. The only way to settle the matter once for all is to have the Privy Council interpret the Act.
Mr.McKENZIE: But it should be settled upon a proper interpretation of the original Act, not upon an Act now introduced.


John Dowsley Reid: This does not change the
Act at all..


Daniel Duncan McKenzie: Then what is the good of it? Are we playing with legislation? Have we so much tiftie that we can pass legislation that has no purpose or object? If we have the right to collect duties upon property entering Canada for the provinces, we have that right by virtue of the power conferred upon us toy the British North America Act. Let us have the matter interpreted by the courts, if there is any doubt about it, but do not make it more difficult by passing this Bill.


Charles Joseph Doherty: This Bill does not touch the British North America Act or its interpretation.


Daniel Duncan McKenzie: Inferentially it does.


Charles Joseph Doherty: Not inferentially,
directly or indirectly. The great object of the Bill is to make it quiite sure that the only question upon which the case will go to the courts and ultimately to the Privy Council shall be the interpretation of the British North America Act. It would be a childishly absurd contention that this Parliament, by any legislation of its own, could in any degree affect the powers conferred upon it by the British North America Act.


Daniel Duncan McKenzie: Will the minister tell the committee briefly what the Bill is for?


Charles Joseph Doherty: It is for the purpose of declaring that the present Customs Act does, and that the Acts passed since Confederation did, apply to the Crown.


William Pugsley: Then you are asking Parliament to make a false declaration.


Charles Joseph Doherty: The hon. member for St. John does say such crushing things. He has told the member for North Cape Breton (Mr. McKenzie) that we are doing a frightfully wicked thing. But has he not made it clear to the member for North Cape Breton that we are not touching the British North America Act; that our wickedness is all directed to the Canada Customs Act?


Daniel Duncan McKenzie: I never said that
stupidity was wicked.


Charles Joseph Doherty: You did say that the member for St. John said that the proposed legislation was wicked.


Daniel Duncan McKenzie: The hon. member for St. John has made the matter so clear from the standpoint of a constitutional lawyer that it is almost unnecessary for me to speak about it. The Minister of Justice - says that it is necessary to pass the Bill now under consideration in order to arrive at a proper interpretation of the British North America Act and to assert that we were right during the last fifty years in collecting these duties. *


Charles Joseph Doherty: Not at all. This Bill simply seeks to ma.ke the Customs Act read as though these words were in it: " This Act shall apply to the Crown." It goes no further than the Customs Act of Canada; it seeks simply to have the Act read as including words to the effect that it shall apply to the Crown. That is what everybody thought it meant; we want to make the law square wiith what everybody did and understood respecting it. I repeat that the 'Bill does not in any way affect the British North America Act or its interpretation. We shall have to determine what power this Parliament had under the British North America Act; this Bill says nothing about that. What the Bill .seeks to make clear is that Parliament exercised whatever power it did have.


Daniel Duncan McKenzie: I perhaps understand
the situation a little better, but it does not change the viewpoint at all. The Customs Act must find its constitutional foundation and right in the British North America Act, and if the Customs Act has gone any fur-

ther than it should go under the basic principles of our constitution, to that extent it is ultra vires and of no effect. We must take for granted that the able constitutional lawyers who were in this Parliament at. the time of Confederation and at the time that the Customs Act was drafted and put through this House were fully cognizant of their powers and authorities under the British North America Act, and that the Customs Act was passed in conformity with those powers. We have, therefore, no business now, by this new legislation, to import into the Customs Act anything but what was in it at that time, and we have no business to put any interpretation upon the 'Customs Act. The Minister of Justice says that this Act does not give an interpretation of the British North America Act, and I agree with him in that, but it does give an * interpretation as to what may be regarded as the. outcome or product of the British North America Act, and if either in the one case or in the other we are going beyond our rights to legislate, we have no right to do so, and the question reverts to the same point: what are the rights of the provinces under the British North America Act? The Customs Act does not alter the situation at all unless that Act comes with. in the purview of powers intended to be conferred uppn this Parliament. That is exactly where I stand, and I submit that this legislation should not be introduced at all until we get a decision of the Privy Council on the point. We have an illustration of this in the Bill that was introduced in this House this afternoon by the Minister of Finance. There was a dispute about the constitutionality of the Insurance Act, and as I understand it, the minister did not bring any legislation before Parliament to patch up the dispute; he waited until an interpretation was given to the matter by the Privy Council, and he then introduced legislation to implement so far as he could what was decided by the Privy Council. The same line of action should be followed in this case; if we are mistaken about an interpretation, we should apply to the courts and get the proper interpretation and after this is received, if it is necessary to change the legislation for the proper and practical carrying out of the Act, then let us get further legislation, but let us not go guessing about the matter now. In fairness and equity, it seems to me there should be no taxes upon the provinces. Take the simplest proposition where we have common jurisdiction and authority. Take agriculture, in which there is a jurisdiction that

is held in common by the provinces and by the Dominion. If the Dominion Government introduce into this, country a herd of cattle or stock for breeding purposes, they do not pay any customs duty, or they simply pay it from one pocket into' the other, so that they really have the advantage of paying no duty. The Department of Agriculture of a province may be doing exactly the same thing, but under the interpretation which is sought to be .put upon the law, they have to pay duty. From the beginning the intention of the Imperial Parliament was that goods -coming into the country in the right of the Crown should not pay duty, and it was a mistake right along to be collecting that duty from the governments of the different provinces. Perhaps they can recover that duty. I do not know whether the same principle that would apply to the individual would apply to the Crown. If an. individual pays any money by mistake of law, he can never get it back, and I presume the Crown would have the right to raise that point, although perhaps .it would 'be a technical objection and would not be worthy of the Crown when it is the Crown on the one side and the Crown on the other. I am not saying a word as to whether these moneys should be paid back or not. I am glad to have an opportunity of expressing my views with regard to the real interpretation of those points of the British North America Act and of the right of the provinces and the Dominion under them.


William Pugsley: The Minister of Justice made a statement a moment ago which, I think, calls for some remarks. He says that everybody since Confederation has thought that the Customs Act applies to the Crown as represented by the provinces. I wish to deny that most emphatically. The only evidence he has given us of that is that in the statement of protest presented by one or two of the provinces they mention section 125 as exempting them from taxation. Surely that does not . prove that the people of the different provinces from which duties have been illegally exacted have assented to the view which the Minister of Justice now puts forward. Take the case of New Brunswick. My hon. friend from Westmorland (Mr. Copp) has called my attention to the fact that only a few months ago that province imported a large quantity of road machinery, and I have no doubt upon that they illegally paid duty. They have not made a claim on any particular ground to get that money back, and I presume the officials paid it because their attention was not called either to the omission of the Crown from the Customs Act or to section 125 of the British North America Act. This Government has illegally imposed a tax against the people of the province of New Brunswick in respect of a good many thousand dollars worth of goods which they have imported for the purpose of public improvement. I presume it will also be found that in respect to fertilizers, which the government of New Brunswick has been importing, this government has exacted customs duties illegally. It is said that the province no doubt has the right to recover that money as conditions are to-day. The province might rest its claim upon two grounds: first, that the Customs Act does not apply and has not professed to apply to the Crown, and secondly, that under section 125 of the British North America Act, this Parliament has no right to impose duties upon the provinces respecting goods im' ported by them. Have the people of New Brunswick ever waived their rights? Are they estopped? The Minister of Justice says everybody has thought that the law was as this government is now attempting to make it, but the people of New Brunswick have neveT expressed an opinion upon this point, either through their government or otherwise, and they can to-morrow put in a claim to recover these duties. Does this government say to them:	Although
you have two grounds on which to base your claim, we are going to legislate one of those grounds away from you? The minister says: Oh, the people of New Brunswick have always thought that the Customs Act -applied to the Crown. There is no evidence whatever of a waiver of whatever legal rights they have to-day to recover that money, and, as a representative of that province, I protest in the strongest manner possible against their rights being taken away by this legislation. The only ground upon which this government can take their rights away is that Parliament has the paramount right to do this injustice to the people of that province, if it chooses to do so.
I wish to prove what I said a moment ago, namely, that, the legislation is false upon its face, and this Government is asking Parliament to declare and place upon record what is known to be absolutely contrary to the truth. These are the words of the Bill.
The rates and duties of customs imposed by this Act or the Customs Tariff or any other

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law relating to the Customs, as well as the rates and duties of customs heretofore imposed by any Customs Act or Customs Tariff or any law relating to the Customs enacted and in force at any time since the first of July, one thousand eight hundred and sixty-seven, shall he binding,-
That is all right for the future.
-and are declared and shall be deemed to have been always binding-
That is a false statement. They have not been binding for thirty years.
-and are declared and shall be deemed to have been always binding upon and payable by His Majesty, in respect of any goods which may be hereafter or have been heretofore imported by or for His Majesty, whether in the right of His Majesty's Government of Canada or His Majesty's Government of any province of Canada.
I say that is a declarataion which this Parliament ought not to be called upon ter make. It is declaring that this Customs Act has been binding on the Crown in the right of the province. But the Minister of Customs knows perfectly well that it has not been binding; he knows that this Bill has been introduced because the Justice Department has told him that by reason of the Crown not being mentioned he has no legal right and never had a legal right to collect these duties. The Minister of Justice, as one of the best lawyers in the country, knows that this Customs Act has never been binding upon the Crown in the right of the province. Without suggesting there has been any doubt on the part of the minister himself or the deputy minister on the subject, and knowing perfectly well that these duties have been illegally exacted from the provinces, he is asking this Parliament to-night to take away the legal rights of the people of those provinces, and prevent them from having an opportunity of making a claim which they would raise upon both grounds. He is endeavouring to prejudice the people of the province making a claim against the Government by reason of the legal exaction of these duties.


Edward Mortimer Macdonald: Will not the minister permit this legislation to stay in committee until we hear from the Manitoba government on this question? As they have raised the issue I think the House ought to have the advantage of hearing their views,, and the province should be given an opportunity of presenting them before Parliament comes to a conclusion on the matter.


John Dowsley Reid: I cannot see any object in allowing the legislation to stand. My duty

is, of course, to look after the interests of the Dominion so far as my department is concerned. The government feel that this legislation should he passed in the interests of the Dominion. We cannot hope to ga'n anything by communicating with the provincial government. They will simply say, as they did in their letter that they ought not to pay the duties. We are anxious to get our legislation through as soon as possible, and as an opportunity has been given for every hon. gentleman to express his views, I see no object in allowing *the legislation to stand.


Edward Mortimer Macdonald: On account of its retroactive character this is not an ordinary measure. Whenever a Bill is introduced, whether by a private member or by the government interfering with vested rights or retroactive in its character, the House should be seized of all the merits of the case before it comes to a conclusion. It is upon that ground, a very reasonable and just ground, I think, that I ask that the measure be not pressed now. If the minister has confidence in his legislation, he can have no objection to waiting to hear from the provincial government on this matter.


John Dowsley Reid: I cannot see what is to be gained by holding this over, as we have all. the information before us that we can possibly get. It is simply a question of law, and if the provincial government wish to proceed with the case, they can of course go to the Piivy Council.


William Pugsley: After you have taken away their rights.


John Dowsley Reid: I do not think we are taking them away, nor does the Department of Justice.


William Pugsley: What is the Bill for
them?


John Dowsley Reid: The Government have considered this Bill carefully, and are satisfied that it does not interfere with the British North America Act. An opportunity has been given to hon. gentlemen to express their views, and I can see no reason why we should not advance the Bill.


William Pugsley: I should just like to call the minister's attention to what the Supreme Court always does in a matter of this kind. If any question comes up affecting the rights of any province, they always insist on notice being given to the province, but here we are legislating behind the backs of the provinces. Remember, it- is

not individuals that the provincial governments represent, but all the people of all the provinces, and the people of the provinces will feel aggrieved that this legislation is passed behind their backs, with no opportunity being given to them for expressing their views.


Charles Joseph Doherty: I have every respect
for the arguments that have been made, but I think I ought to say frankly just how it strikes me. The contention that there is any wrong or injustice being done to the province in this matter, it seems to me, is so clearly and manifestly futile that I should be ashamed to delay the legislation to hear them argue that there was an injustice. In the second place, I am satisfied that there is no argument that they could put before us, and nobody whom they could get to put that argument before us with greater skill than has been done here this evening. For these reasons I quite understand why the Minister of Customs does not feel disposed to consent to delay this legislation.


Arthur Bliss Copp: I think that the suggestion of my hon. friend from Pictou (Mr. Macdonald) that this legislation should stand over until the provincial government is heard from is a reasonable and proper one. I do not propose to make any argument on the legal aspects of this case, because that has already been done so ably by my hon. friend from Pictou and my hon. friend from St. John (Mr. Pugsley). It seems to me that there must have been a feeling in the minds of the hon. gentlemen opposite that the provinces have some claims. There may be some question about it, but it must appeal to them that the provinces have some claim in regard to this matter, and they are apparently taking the position: "What we have we'll hold"; we have this amount of money, small though it be, but a principle is involved; we have collected this amount of money for years from the different provinces in duties on goods imported, and, to make sure, we will pass an Act and hold what we have. That does not seem to me to be a reasonable proposition. I am not prepared to say which of the hon. gentlemen who have argued the legal matter is right, and it is more or less of an invasion, in my opinion, of provincial rights, and, therefore, it should not be decided hurriedly, in an ex-parte manner, by this Parliament. And they say: Although the provinces may have some rights, we will remove the foundation of all the claims that they have made. I understand that some
of the provinces have already made claims on the Government, that they have paid duties they should not have paid, and that they should be reimbursed this payment made by mistake. Four provinces, I believe, have already made claims in regard to the return of duties paid by them. I know full well that the province of New Brunswick last winter entered into a large contract with a firm in the United States for road machinery. Since that time the Government was defeated, and the succeeding Government continued the contract, and I think part of the machinery has been delivered, and the present Government will stand in the shoes of the late Government. Irrespective of the question as to which is right and which is wrong in regard to the legal aspect of the case, it seems to me it is an infringement of and interference with provincial rights, and, that being so, I think the provinces should be consulted and given an opportunity to state their case before the committee in a different manner, presenting their views to us.


Edward Mortimer Macdonald: What is the meaning of the last five lines of the section? It seems to 'be an anomalous proposition. My hon. friend declares that he proposes to institute a tax upon the provincial governments of Canada, and to declare it was the intention of Parliament that they should always be taxed. The last four lines read as follows:-
Nothing herein contained is intended to impose or to declare the imposition of any tax upon, or to make or to declare liable to taxation, any property belonging to His Majesty either in the right of Canada or of a province.
The imposition of this tariff on property brought into Canada by any provincial government is an imposition of a tax. Why have these anomalies, taxing at one end of the section, and declaring that they are not taxed at the other end?


Charles Joseph Doherty: In no part of the section do we impose a tax on the province or the Crown. We declare the Crown to be subject to the legislation; we do not declare any right on the property of the Crown. We propose to collect the duty from the Crown when the Crown makes an importation, and we collect it without regard to the ownership of the property. Perhaps hon. gentlemen have not fully realized that customs duties are imposed upon the man who imports, and he will have to pay them if he imports another man's property, just as much as if he imports his own property, and it is true, with regard to the individual, that there is a lien or right imposed upon

the property itself to secure the payment of the tax or duty. In so far as the right upon the property may possibly be interpreted to be a tax on the property, we have no intention of imposing any obligation on any property which belongs to the Crown, but all that we want to do is to make applicable to the Crown, as to every other person, the obligation to pay a duty when goods are brought into this country, no matter to whom they belong.


Mr. GERMAN:: Is the duty not a tax?


Charles Joseph Doherty: 
William Pugsley: Is this not intended to
be a parliamentary interpretation of section 125 of the British North America Act or to assist in the final interpretation of that section?


Charles Joseph Doherty: Most assuredly it is
not intended to he. If it were intended to be, I would say it was one of the most awful failures I ever heard of.


William Pugsley: What is the meaning
of it?	\


Charles Joseph Doherty: The intention is' to
make it perfectly clear that we 'do not in- * tend to create any obligation upon the property of the Crown. I might answer it better by saying that it means exactly and precisely what it says, and the hon. gentleman who is asking the question, who understands the English language perfectly, knows the meaning of it.


William Pugsley: I have heard judges,
when they could not understand the language of a provision, state that it meant exactly what it said.
Mr.-GERMAN:	If the province of Ontario should import a thousand tons of steel for some public purpose, that thousand tons would be the property of the Crown as represented by the Government of the province of Ontario'. The British North America Act says that the property of the

Crown shall not be subject to a tax. Does my hon. friend propose now to impose a duty, which is a tax?


Charles Joseph Doherty: We do not propose to
.impose any duty, tax, or anything else on that thousand pounds of steel. We propose to say that whoever imported that steel shall pay a duty of so much, and the amount of that duty will be determined on the value of the importation.


William Pugsley: What is the meaning
of section 2, which says:
If any imported goods seized in any building within one hundred yards from the frontier between Canada and any foreign country are forfeited according to law, such building shall also be seized and forfeited, and shall be forthwith taken down and removed.


John Dowsley Reid: There are buildings close
along the frontier, which parties use for storing goods which are brought in there in violation of the law, and there are some buildings partly on one side of the line and partly on the other. The United States Government has on its statutes a section which reads as follows:
If any store, warehouse or other building shall be upon or near the boundary line between the United States and any foreign country, and there is reason to believe that dutiable merchandise is deposited or has been placed therein or carried through or into the same without payment of duties, and in violation of law, and the collector, deputy collector, naval officer, or surveyor of customs, shall make oath before any magistrate competent to administer the same, that 'he has reason to believe, and does believe, that such offence has been committed, such officer shall have the right to search such building and the premises belonging thereto; and if any such merchandise shall be found therein, the same, together with such building, shall be seized, forfeited and disposed of, according to law, and the building shall be forthwith taken down or removed.
Our officers tell me that there are parties who use buildings in that way and that they rush goods over to the otheT side when the officers are coming or when they have information that they are smuggling. We are putting this clause in and it is similar to the clause in the Act on the other side of the line in the expectation that it will make it more workable between the two countries.
Bill reported.



JUDGES' ACT AMENDMENT.

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Bill No. 66 to amend the Judges' Act- Mr. Doherty-read the second time and the House went into committee on the Bill, Mr. Rainville in the Chair.

On section 1-appointment of puisne judge:
Mr. MARTIN:: What is the salary of the judge now?


Charles Joseph Doherty: There is no change in the salary. This is to add one to the number of'judges in Saskatchewan as provided for by the provincial legislature.
On section 2-appointment of county court judge:


William Pugsley: Has the minister ever thought of making some provision, of course, in conjunction with the provinces, to have the county court judge in districts where there is very little litigation going on transferred to districts where their services might be required instead of appointing new judges? We all know that litigation has fallen off in the last few years in many localities. I am told it is so in Ontario and I know it is so in my own province. In some districts the judges have a good deal to do while there are other districts where they are comparatively idle, and instead of appointing additional judges and putting the country to a great deal of
expense, they might be distributed and in this way the work could be done.


Charles Joseph Doherty: This matter was adverted to by the hon. member for South Renfrew (Mr. Graham) on the resolution introducing the present Bill. I explained then that some two or three years ago I had taken the matter up with the then Attorney General of Ontario and had represented to him the desirability of acting on the lines suggested by the hon. member for St. John (Mr. Pugsley). At the time there appeared to be a disposition to listen favourably to what was suggested, but it has not resulted in any action. I did say, in response to the suggestion of my hon. friend from South Renfrew, that I would again take the matter up to see if something could be done on that line. As far as there is any addition here to the judiciary of Ontario, it is of a judge in Timiskaming which is a new and growing district.
Bill reported, read the third time and passed.
Sir THOMAS WHITE moved the adjournment of the House.
On motion of Sir Thomas White, the House adjourned at 10.05 p.m.



IlSTDEX


[Stage Direction]
Abbreviations.-lr., 2r., 3r.=flrst, second, or third reading.	Amdt.=Amendment. Com.=
Committee. Con.=Consideration. Div. = Division.	M. = Motion. Ref. =
Reference. Rep. = Report. Res. = Resolution. Sec. = Section.
Abbotsford postmaster, 608 Achim, Mr. Honore (Labelle)
Military Service Bill, 2873 Address in reply to the Governor General's Speech, 9, 47, 83, 119, 160, 195, 249 Address to His Majesty the King. See Parliament: Extension of term of Adjournment moved to discuss matter of urgent public importance Mr. Pardee, returned soldiers, 459 Mr. Lemieux, liquor in military camps, 806 Mr. Kyte, price of flour, 1039 Mr. Devlin, conservation of grain, 1176 Mr. Macdonald, German submarines, 1320 Mr. Oliver, removal of rails, 1820 Mr. Turriff, farm labour, 3504 Mr. Macdonald, munitions, 5517 Adulteration of food. See Food Advertising, government
Department of the Secretary of State, 656 Recruiting, 986, 3136
Aeroplane. See Air service and. Aviation Aetna Explosives Company, 4508
Agriculture
Animals
Health of, 2271 Loaning of to farmers, 4152 Pure bred, purchase of, 2276 See, under this head, Live stock.
Apples, embargo on export of, 5776 Associations, 2276 Beans for seed, 671, 1473 Bulletins, 2062, 2274 Butter
Imports and exports of, 1573 Purchases by British Government, 899 Cattle. See, under this head, Live st;ock Cheese
Imports and exports of, 1573 Manufacturing and curing of, 2265 Purchase of by British Government, 1774, 1863, 1971, 2197, 2257, 2265, 2267, 2557 See also Food
Volume I:: 1-1124. Volume II:
" IV:	3187-4242.	" V:
Agriculture-Con.
Dairy industry, 953, 2075, 2256 Department
Estimates, 654, 2062, 2255, 2924, 3744, 4677 French-speaking employees of, 2262, 2265 Publications 2062, 2274 Staff and salaries, 4924 Development of, 2578 Exhibitions, 2260, 2270 Experimental farms, 2055, 2063, 4682 Hay
Embargo on, 1222 Imports and exports of, 1574 Inspection and grading of, 3402 Purchases of by British Government, 5086 Hogs
Inspection of, 2271 Cholera, 2273 Insect pests, 2066, 2075 Labourers. See Labour Horses, compensation for destruction of, 2056
Live stock
British embargo on, 918, 987, 1535 Pure bred, purchase of, 2276 Shipments, inspection of, 1841 See also Live stock and Produce Bill Noxious weeds, 2068 Parcel post shipments, 2072 Plant diseases
Rust in wheat, 2063, 2067 Powdery scab in potatoes, 2269, 5991 Potatoes
Accumulation of on railways, 607 Duty, proposed removal, 703, 5274, 5777, 5982
Exports and imports of, 2267, 5982 Powdery scab, 2269, 5991 Prices and supply of, 936, 1087, 1189, 1437, 2095
Seed, 1473
Straw, utilization of, 4683 Veterinary Director General, 987 See also Cold storage, and Food
1125-2138. Volume III: 2139-3186.
4243-5270.	" VI: 5271-6094.
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/

Agricultural Instruction Act
Administration of, 3755 Payments to Prince Edward Island under, 455
Aiken, Mr. G. O., employment of, 4151, 4508 Air Service, 805, 1039, 1127, 1331. See Aviation
Alase, Motor boat, 5360
Alberta, enlistments in, 3373, 3375
Alcohol
Distillation of, 3742 Public institutions, for, 5103 Alcoholic liquors
Revenue from sale and manufacture of, 304
Sale of to soldiers. See Army: camps See also Intoxicating liquors, Prohibition and Grain
Aldershot camp. See Army Aliens
Armenians and Assyrians, franchise rights of under War-time Elections Act, 5421 Disfranchisement of, 186$, 5416 Enlistment of, 4413, 4415 Homestead rights of, 3808 Naturalization of, 3810 Ames, Sir Herbert B. (Montreal, St Antoine) Budget, 742 The tariff, 742
Government expenditure, 743 Building of highways, 744 Taxation of business profits, 745 Debt of Canada, 745 Military Service, 2738 Contravention of Act, 3346 Enforcement, 2744 Exemptions, 3220 Petitions for and against, 2738 Recruiting, progress of, 2742 Patriotic Fund
Disbursements, 378, 382 Pensions, 382 Pensions, military, 1615 Soldier Settlement Board, 3785 Soldiers
Assigned pay of, 384 Pay of, 3215
Returned, provision for, 756 Voting of, 4781, 4912
Taxation of incomes, 4084, 4095, 4099, 4641, 4647
Unclaimed bank balances, 1008 War charities, 6064 American Turf Association, 47 Amqui-St. Leonard mail contract, 3903 Anderson, Mr. David, employment of, 1265


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Volume II:: 1125-2138.
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Volume III:: 2139-3186.
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INDEX-1917

[Stage Direction]
iii
Army-Con.
Intoxicating liquor in, 535, 806, 1226, 1266, 1561, 1567
Petewawa land claims, 5241 Training, in Canada, 899 Canteen system in England, 718 Casualties
June 30, 1916, to June 5. 1917, 2201 June, 1917, 3719 July, 1917, 4151 August 16-31, 1917, 5901 Civil servants, in, pay and allowance to, 663, 713
Classifications, 2185 Commissions, granting of, 203, 207 Conscription. See Military service Demobilization plans, 3118 Dental Service, 31 Officers, 1574, 4009 Desertions, 338, 3111 Discharge
Purchase of, 3111 Regulations governing, 3096, 3098 Table of, 3096 Total to June 30, 1917, 4152 Work pay, on, 457 Divisions, 459, 2186 Enlistment
Aliens, of, 4413, 4415. See below Persons of foreign birth British army, in, 385 Civil Service, from. See Civil Service Different units, in, 29, 245 Farmers, of, 4685 Figures ^
April 30, 1917, to, 1572 June 30, 1917, to, 4152 July, 1917, 4151
Generally, 2411,	2442,	2446-2451, 2454,
2463-2478, 2573, 2583, 2600, 2624, 2631, 2647, 2855, 2884, 2904 Moosejaw, at, 5122 Non-residents, of, 1476 Persons of foreign birth, 3556, 3759. See above, Aliens Provinces, by, 216, 221 Unfit men, of, 697, 3099, 3107, 4003 Urban and rural, 3135 Western provinces, from, 4685 Equipment, 23. See also War supplies Expeditionary force Command of, 28, 268
Conditions governing in respect of British Government, 1576 Control of by Canada, 20, 39 Disposition of, 268, 1816, 2356 Holiday for, proposed, 5902, 6065 Status of, 259
Volume Is 1-1124.
" IV:	3187-4242.
Army-Con.
Terms respecting enlistment in, 1576 Fifth Canadian Division, command of, 459 Highland Brigade, 458, 552, 556 Hospitals. See that title Irish-Canadian Rangers, 458 Medical service. See Canadian Army Medical Service
Non-commisisoned officers, 1608 Officers
Alleged surplus of, 3102 Appointments, charges regarding, 98 Mentioned in despatches, 4062 Pay of, 1628, 1673, 5773 Reversion in ranks, 3997, 5773 Retention of on leave, 5902 Salutes to, 5424 Unemployed, 560, 3102 Wives of, passports for, 3996 For individual officers see their names Overseas Department
Officers employed by, 6069 See also under this head Expeditionary force
Pay and Records office, staff of, 3104 Pensions. See that title Recruiting
Advertising in connection with, 986, 3136 Civil Service, from. See that title , Correspondence between Prime Minister and ex-minister of Militia, 2446, 3086 Expenses, 1959 Folkstone Director of, 1226 Forestry battalions, for, 5703 Generally, 51, 69, 86, 98, 101, 269, 559, 2395, 3371
Irish, Mr. Mark, statements of, 2707 Medical examination of recruits, 3098, 3963, 3967
National service proposals, 360 Officers
Bonaventure county, 1675 Cape Breton, 5361 Quebec, 3135 Rimouski, 456
Orders in Council respecting, 2482 Provinces, by, 2511. See also under titles of Provinces
Retarding of, alleged, 3086, 3110 Statement by Prime Minister, 194 System of, 360, 372 United States
British subjects in, 2482 Canadians in, 3758, 3759, 3904, 4466 Regiments 104th, 1570 165th, 1725
Reinforcements. See Military Service
Ai
Volume II:: 1125-2138.
" V: 4243-5270.


Volume III:: 2139-3186.
" VI: 5271-6094.


Volume II:: 1125-2138.
" V: 4243-5270.


Volume III:: 2139-3186.
" VI: 5271-6094.



INDEX-1917 v

[Stage Direction]
Bank Act Amendment Bills-Con.
3 Bill No. 65, Sir Thomas White,-loans on farmers' live stock. Res., 1960; lr., 1971;	2r., (referred to Banking and
Commerce Committee), 2149 Bank of Commerce, Canadian, 4686 Banks and banking Savings deposits, 4685 Unclaimed hank balances, 1001 Barnard, Mr. Geo. H. (Victoria, B.C.)
Judges' salaries, 1976 Railway Act, The, 3529 Barrette, Mr. Joseph A. (Berthier)
Gauthier, Hr. L. J., denial of statements of, 2570
Halifax Chronicle, statement in, 3352 Military Service Bill, 2521 Amendment proposed, 2524 Opposition to compulsory service, 2522 Referendum proposals, 2523 Bartlett, Major, position of, 4292, 4416, 5422 Bathurst harbour improvements, 3872 Baugh, Edward Levi Defalcations of, 1470 Release of, 2481
Baxter, Leslie E., employment of, 3418 Bawdy houses. See Criminal Code Amendment Bills
Bay State Fish Company, 2321 Beans. See Agriculture.
Bear River, N.S.
Indian agents, 1569 Post office site, 1378, 1569 Beland, Hon. H. S., M.P., detention of in Germany, 311, 341, 524
Belford, Major J. F., position of, 5703 Bell, Mr. Graham, pay of, 1129 Bell, steamer, 1377.
Bell Telephone Company, 3548
Bell Telephone Memorial Association, 5780
Bellemare, Mr. A. (Maskinongd)
Address in reply to the Governor General's Speech, 294
Military service, 294, 2823, 3573 Bennett, Mr. R. B. (Calgary)
Bishop of Mackenzie River, 868 Canadian Northern railway, acquisition of, 4566, 4627-4638, 5149 Civil Service salaries, 2248 Companies, incorporation of, 5924-5942 Government railways, rolling stock, 4931 Gwatkin, General, 4428
Bennett, Mr. R. B.-Con.
Intercolonial railway Operation of, 786	'
Reply to Mr. Graham's statement, 805 Intoxicating liquors, prohibition of, 4402 Legislators, free transportation for, 4936 Live stock exchanges, 5506, 5509 McLeod-Tellier Commission, 5252, 5259 Military Service Bill, 4664 Mounted Police, Royal Northwest, 4669, 4672
Overseas Military Forces, minister of, 4428
Pensions, 6023
Railways
Material for France, 1830 Private cars, 4937 Transportation for legislators, 4936 Soldiers, voting of, 1403, 4902 War-time Elections Bill, 5614 Woman suffrage, 1510 Bennett, Mr. W. H. (East Simcoe)
Flour, price of, 1048 Gordon Divorce Bill, 5499, 5904 Insurance Act amendment, 1037, 1157, 1524, 1568
National Transcontinental Railway-solicitor's fees, 454
War-time Elections Bill, 5681, 5870 Berlinguet, Thomas F. X., employment of, 1381
Bernard, Lieut.-Col. E. S., position of, 5703 Best, Mr. John A. (Dufferin)
Rankin, Captain Ramsay, 987 Troops, alleged stoning of, 803 Bickerdike, Mr. Robert (Montreal, St. Lawrence)
Capital punishment
Abolition of, 46, 325, 617, 1028 Proposed plebiscite, 1016 Russia, in, 1012
Spain case, the, 1018 Women and children, 1017, 1150 Cattle, British embargo on, 920 Dubreuil, Mr., dismissal of, 3635 Prisoners, proposed enlistment of, 1012, 1015
War-time Elections Bill, 5600 Bigamy. See Criminal Code Amendment Bills
Bigras, Geddon, dynamite plot against, 5360 Bills. See their titles Binder twine, 3233.
Blain, Lieut. Roswell, position of, 4245 Blain, Mr. Richard (Peel)
Army
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Galt, Mr. Justice, investigation into report of, 2056
Gauthier, Mr. L. J„ denial of statements of, 2570
Gordon Divorce Bill, 5903 High Commissioner, Canadian, office of, 4177 Hospitals, military, 464 House of Commons Business of the House
Morning sittings, 2619, 2775, 2833 Saturday sittings, 324. 2569 Wednesday sittings, 324 Mace, new, 146S Members, tributes to deceased, 3 Officials
Appointments, 586
Clerk of the House, retirement of, 6069 Sergeant-at-arms, death of, 6069 Imperial Munitions Board, labour, 1986 Imperial War Cabinet and Imperial War Conference
Adjournment of House for, 117, 597, 603 Announcement re meeting of, 42 Correspondence respecting, 5, 24 Proceedings, 1525
Cattle embargo, 1535 Dominions overseas, constitutional relations of, 1528, 1531 Development and control of natural resources, 1532 France, visit to, 1536 Imperial preference, 1532 India, representation of, 1534 Minutes of, 2354 Soldiers' graves, 1534 Statements by British Prime Minister, 2354
Judges' salaries, 5955 Labour bureaus, establishment of, 118 Lake of the Woods water level, 2775 Landry, Mr. Justice, finding of, 3110, 3615 Lessard, General, 364 Mace, vote of thanks to donors of, 1468 Members of Parliament, tributes to deceased, 3
Military Service Bill Introduction, 1542, 2184 Amendment of Mr. Copp, 3078 Appeals, 2191, 3178 Army Act, regulations of, 3114 Available men, 2390 Board of Selection, 5083 Canada's position in the war, 2184 Contraventions of Act, 3342-3351, 3361, 3588
Exemptions, 3208, 3363, 6068 Exceptions, 3559
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British Government and Canadian Pacific Railway Financial Arrangements Bill,
lr„ 1369.	2r„ 2059. Com., 2059. Rep.,
2061, 3r„ 2139
British Government, war supplies, purchases of in Canada,'4953, 5517, 5541 Bromptonville postmaster, 1129.
Brouillard, Mr. Ovide (Drummond and Arthabaska)
iEtna Explosives Company, 4508 Military service, 3072
Bruce, Dr., investigations of. See Canadian Army Medical Service Buchanan, Mr. W. A. (Medicine Hat)
Army allowances, subsistence, 5915 . Canadian Northern Railway, acquisition of, 5178
Coal mining, western, 119, 458, 523, 1266, 1372, 1616, 1723, 1725, 2526, 2570, 2653 Coutts quarantine reserve, 590 Economic and Development Commission, 1125
Farm labour, 3507 Fuel, 1414 Grain
Commission, 3711 Elevators, 986 Seed, advances for, 303, 305 Home guard duty, 336
Hudson's Bay Company lands, taxation of. 986
Hyde, Mr. J. W., 301 Indian reserves, 989, 2389 Judgments, uniform interest on, 900 Letter carriers' salaries, 1474 Medicine Hat military reserve, 301 Military service, 2600 Exemptions, 2607 Referendum proposals, 2607 Taxation of wealth, 2608 Mounted Police pensions, 5701 Oil-boring machinery, 301 Proportional representation, 913 School lands, western, 1378 Shaw, Mr. F. D., dismissal of, 1847 Soldier Settlement Board, 1163 Soldiers, former occupations of, 4685 Taxation
Farm implements, 1686 Hudson's Bay Co. Lands, 986 Income, 1687, 4122 Wealth, 2608
Unclaimed bank balances, 1009 War-time Elections Bill, 5580 Woman suffrage, 1515
Budget debate, 718. Arndts, proposed: Mr. Turriff, 750, 845, 870, 937, 1085, 1089, 1194, 1201, 1267; Mr. Robb, 1317, 1319, 1423; Mr. Oliver, 1424. Mr. Loggie, 1424. See also Taxation.
Bull, Mr. Perkins, position of, 1130 Bureau, Mr. Jacques (Three Rivers and St. Maurice)
Berlinguet, Thos. F. X., 1381 Canadian Northern Railway, acquisition of, 5016, 5168
Industrial requirements, 2696
Inland Revenue Department estimates,
.	3835
Military service, 2693, 5882 Montreal Gazette, statement of, 2709, 4739 Public Works Department architect, 5104 Quebec judges' salaries, 5798, 5800
St. Maurice river improvements, 1381 Taxation of incomes, 5886 Three Rivers
Harbour improvements, 3879 Public building, 668
War-time Elections Bill, 5667, 5695, 57125771
Burford, recruiting in, 601 Burgess, defalcations of, 1127 Burke, Col. Rev. A. E„ position of, 5704 Burnham, Mr. John H. (West Peterborough) Aliens, enlistment of, 4415 Army	[DOT]
Camps, sale of liquor in, 817 Enlisted men, age of, 3577 Pensions, 1594 Unfit men, 699
Assistant Deputy Minister of Labour, suspension of, 6911 Capital punishment, 623 Civil Service, appointments, 2019 Government Railways Act amendment, 4355
Grain for breweries and distilleries, 1179 Intoxicating liquors, prohibition of, 4403 Judges' salaries, 1977
Labour-Industrial Disputes Investigation Act, 1112
Military Service Bill, 2555, 3365 Parliamentary secretaryships, 4204 Patent medicines, war tax on, 363 Shipbuilding, 1932 Soldiers, voting of, 2557 Soldier Settlement Board, 3630 Technical education, 1238 Trent canal wharves, 759 Venereal diseases, 817, 869
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Levis station, 2208 Maritime Express service, 8 Milford ballast pit, 2320 Obstructions, removal of, 1376 Operation of, 759 ^Passenger service, 2203 Peniac bridge, 2320 Pension fund, 1476 Rails, 1575 Rates, coal, on, 4292 Station accommodation, 2227 Stations, naming of, 3386 Tracadie siding, 2618
See also Government Railways Act Amendment Bill.
Intoxicating liquors, shipment on, 591 Level crossing, Pictou harbour branch, 304 Line improvements, 2204
Military and hospital trains, 2205 National Transcontinental Earnings, 2203
Engineers' residence at Fitzpatrick, 455, 456
Express service, 595 Fitzpatrick yard, 455 Freight rates, 2210, 3394 Operation, 657, 1573, 3411.
Expenses of, 2203 Portneuf claims, 1571
Rails, removal of to France, 1229, 1266, 2225
St. Malo shops, 1128 Salmon river viaduct, 2212 Solicitor's fees, 454	_
Telegraph line, 456 Ties, purchases of, 455 Traffic, 2209, 2218 Obstructions, removal of, 595 Officials, 657, 3390 Operation of, 2203, 3386 Passenger service, 2207 Prince Edward Island
Car ferry and terminals, 2205 Widening of, 3902, 3945 Quebec railways, 4948, 5452 Rails, 2224
Rolling stock, 594, 4928. See, under this title, Cars
Safety-first inspectors, 337 Ships, ouilding of, for, 4939, 5429 Valley railway, 1380 Working expenses, 3410 See also Government Railways Act Amendment Bill
Canadian Northern Railway.
British Columbia, lines and works aided by province of, 4987
Canadian Northern Railway-Con.
Capital stock of affiliated companies held by, 4626
Payments on interest account, 4338 Removal of rails from, 301, 3398 Canadian Northern Railway Company.
Financial statements respecting, 4058 Report of Drayton-Acworth Commission, 4011
Canadian Northern Railway Acquisition Bill.
Res., 4022, 4215, 4217, 4247. lr., 4293.	2r.,
4467,	4512,	4566. Com., 4590,	4622,
4835, 4960, 5015. 3r„ 5108, 5123-5194 Amendment proposed: Mr. Graham, 4477^ lost on div., 4590
Closure applied, 5002, 5015, 5121, 5123 Canadian Pacific Railway. See British Government
Canadian Patriotic Fund, 595, 3078 Allowances from, 203, 207, 383, 3951 See also War Charities Canadian Press Limited, 3740 Canals, 3402, 3417
For individual canals, see their titles Canteen. See Army Cape Bold breakwater, 3873 Cape Breton Recruiting officers, 5361 Senate representation, 89 Cape Cove pier, 3879 Capital Punishment,	"
Plebiscite proposed, 1016 Russia's abolition of; proposed congratulations, 1012 Spain case, 1018
Women and children, in cases of, 1017, 1150
See Criminal Code Amendment Bills Caraquet and South Shore Railway, 2223,
Cardin, Mr. P. J. A. (Richelieu)
Canadian Northern Railway, acquisition of, 5175
Military Service Bill, 3058 St. Lawrence Flour Mills Company, 4509 Carleton beach protection works, 1128 Caron, Mr. Hector, employment of, 4151 Carrier, Emile, allowance to, 581 Carroll, Mr. William F. (South Cape Breton) Aeroplane service, 1331 Army Recruiting Officers, Cape Breton. 5361
Budget, 1424
Taxation of incomes, 1424 Government expenditure, 1425 So-called prosperity, 1426 Control of food prices, 1427
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Reply to statements of Mr. Edwards, 1430
Canada Temperance Act, 5244 Canadian Government Railways, private cars, 4933
Canadian Northern Railway acquisition of, 5140
Censors and decoders, 576
Customs Department, motor boats, 3759
Dental officers, 1574
East Bay wharves, 5315, 5317
Flour, price of, 1044
Food products, prices and control of, 1427
Indians-Sydney reserve, 1888
Insurance, 5203
Macdonald, Miss Jessie, 5361
McNeil, Lt. John D., 5272
Military Service, 2854
Nova Scotia steamship service, 2291
Shipbuilding, 1331
Submarine situation, 1329
Taxation
Incomes, 1424 Wealth, 2859
Toronto, Hamilton and Buffalo Railway, 2613
Carroll, Lieut. W. F., M.P., position and pay of, 6066
Carson, Major General, position of, 986 Carvell, Mr. Frank B. (Carleton, N.B.) Agricultural instruction, 3755 Army, soldiers
Pay of, on promotion, 5423 Voting of, 4795-4834, 4874-4887,, 48894914
Bear river, N.S.
Indian agents, 1569 Wharfinger, 1378 British preference, 1711 Canada Gazette, 3738 Canada Temperance Act, 1263, 3739, 5243 Canadian Government Railways Branch lines, 2230
National Transcontinental, Salmon river viaduct, 2212
Promotion of employees, 766 Quebec railways, 5464 Canadian Northern Railway, acquisition of, 4253, 4266, 5146 Companies, incorporation of, 5928-5942 Criminal Code amendments, jurors, 4301, 4318
Daylight saving, 3682 Desjardins, Lt. Col., 1818 Farm implements, duty on, 1708 Flour, price of, 1051 Georgian Bay Canal Commission, 989 Gordon divorce case, 5903
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Government Railways Act amendment, 4340, 4356, 4366, 4863 Grain, fixing of price of, 3688 Hollocody, Captain, 897 House of Commons
Members, sessional indemnity of, 5790 Stenographers, 5789 Hudson Bay railway, 2230 Immigration agents, 1737, 1756 Indians,
New Brunswick, 1889 Reserves, cutting timber on, 1889 Insurance, 4388, 5202
' Maritime Provinces, military affairs, 5226 McLeod-Tellier Commission, 5247, 5254 McNeil, F. C., payments to, 1380 Military district No. 6, 5226 Military service, 2709 Appeals, 3179 Referendum, 2711 Tribunals, 3152, 3161 O'Connor, Mr. W. F., report of, 3746, 3753 Parliament, railway transportation for members of, 3519 Potatoes, duty on, 5777
Proposed removal, 5274, 5982 Public works expenditure, 6348 Quarantine service, 3756 Quebec harbourmaster, 897 Railway employees, payment of salaries of, 5957, 5997
Railway Act, The, 3422-3453, 3516-3553, 3593, 3717
Ross rifle, 388, 412-434
Rural mail service, 3647
St. John harbour improvements, 5347
Soldiers, votes for, 1404
Sugar, colouring of, 1957
Surveys, 1346
Tariff revision, 1699
Taxation
Business profits, 1452, 4245 Income, 1452, 1701, 3768, 5884 Telegraph and telephone lines, 3543, 53635404, 5410
Unclaimed bank balances, 1007 Victoria breakwater, 1381 Valley railway, 1380
War Purchasing Commission inquiry re purchases, 340
War-time Elections Bill, 5660, 5676-5699, 5713
West Edmonton forest rangers and homestead inspectors, 1476 104th Regiment, 1570
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Censors and decoders, 576, 3718 Louisburg, at, 4008, 4048 See "The Fiddlers"
Census
Male population of Canada, 2283 Western, 2336
C. E. Tanner, steamer, 5362 Chabot, Mr. John L. (Ottawa)
Civil Service
Appointments, 2020 Salaries, 2251 Military service, 2781
Enlistment in Quebec, 2784
Chabot, Lt.-Col. J. L., M.P., position and pay of, 988
Chairman of Committees. See Deputy Speaker
Charitable and patriotic enterprises, organization and control of, 378, 462
Charlton, Mr. William A. (Norfolk)
Budget, 1304
Pulp and paper industry, 1304 Chicago drainage canal, 302 Chicoutimi, pure bred animals at, 4152
Chinese Immigration Act Amendment Bill.
lr., 843.	2r., com., 2139. Hep., 2149.
3r., 2285
Chisholm, Mr. A. W. (Inverness)
Economic and Development Commission, 2200
Fish and fisheries
Advisory Board, 2151 Dogfish, 2177
Inverness harbour, improvements, 5326 Margaree harbour improvements, 3867, 5330 National Service, provincial directors of, 2200
Nova Scotia public works, 5319, 5337 Scotch Hill post office, 3649 Steamship service, 2301, 2306 Telegraph and telephone lines, 5371
Cheese. See Agriculture: Dairy Civil Service
Act, administration of, 1791 Appointments
Order in Council, Jan. 1917, under, 3003 Regulations governing, 643 Returned soldiers, 643
See also Army: Soldiers: Returned Section 21, under, 607, 650, 693, 1023, 1351, 1937
Compulsory retirement from, alleged, 2059
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Dismissals, proposed, 3633 Employees, French-speaking, 2262, 2759 Employment of men in higher offices, 1256 Enlistments from, 192, 2014
Pay and separation allowances, 213, 663 Insurance, 3503 Mail carriers. See Post office Promotions, 2010, 2011, 2238, 4666 Salaries, 1791, 2008, 2238, 2946 Enlisted men, of, 1353, 2014, 2252 Proposed increases, 583 See Civil Service Act Amendment Bill. For departments see their titles
Civil Service Act Amendment Bill. Res., 2008. lr., 2024.	2r., 2149. Com., 3238.	3r„
Clark, Mr. Hugh (Parliamentary Under Secretary of State for External Affairs) Mounted police, 4668
Clark, Mr. Michael (Red Deer)
Army, canteens, 811 Budget, 736
Problems arising from the war, 736 Necessity for economy, 737 Taxation of incomes, 738 Maintenance and extension of our foreign commerce, 739 Free trade, 740
Canadian Northern railway, acquisition of, 4867
Grain for breweries and distilleries, 1183 Military service, exemptions, 3367 Newspaper articles, correction of, 3617 Parliament, extension of term of, 3492 Political deadlock, rumoured, 1971 Referendum, 2665 Senate, appointments to, 934 Separation allowances, 1191 Soldiers, votes for, 1387 * Taxation
Business profits, 737 Income, 738, 4639 Woman suffrage, 1518
Clarke, Mr. W. A. (North Wellington) Military Service Bill, 2861
Clergy as immigration agents, 5361
Clements, Mr. H. S. (Comox-Atlin)
Wharves, construction of, 5318 Cloakey, George, employment of, 1819 Closure. See_ Speaker, Parliamentary Procedure; Canadian Northern Railway Acquisition Bill
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Coalition government, 2463, 2887, 2901, 3000,
3014, 3023, 3727, 3732 Political deadlock rumoured, 1941 See National government Correspondence between Sir Robert Borden and Sir Wilfrid Laurier, 2692
Cochrane, Hon. Frank (Minister of Railways and Canals)
Canadian Government railways Cars, purchase of, 4928 Coal purchases, 664, 667 Freight rates, 3394 Hudson Bay railway, 5087 Intercolonial Cans, 2227
Construction and betterments, 2224 Management and operation, 775 Officials, appointment of, 658 Passenger service, 2203 Line improvements, 2204 Military and hospital trains, 2205 Rails, 2224
National Transcontinental Freight rates, 2210 Operation, 658 Salmon River viaduct, 2217 Operating expenses, 2203 Prince Edward Island railway terminals and car ferry, 2205 Canals
St. Peter's, 3406 Trent, 2206, 3405 Welland, 2206 Coal
Confiscation of by railways, 584 Shortage, 83 Prices, 666
Government Railways Act Amendment Bill, 3845, 4339, 4365, 4386
Provincial legislators, free transportation for, 684
Quebec railways, 5472
Railway Act, the, 194, 602, 605, 3421, 35113553, 3592-3608, 3716 Railway, situation, inquiry into, 3408 Railways-France, removal of materials to, 311, 1825, 3407
Railways and Canals Department estimates, 657, 2202, 3385, 4925, 4928, 5428 St. John and Quebec Railway Act Amendment Bill, 2433, 3401
Cockshutt, Mr. William F. (Brantford) Address in reply to the Governor General's Speech, 100 The war, 100
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National government, 161 Political patronage, 162 Extravagance of present administration, 163
The ex-Minister of Militia, 164 -National service, 170 Westmorland county and war profits, 171 Extension of term of Parliament, 172 The Dorchester election, 173 Alleged statement of Mr. Blondin, 173 Budget, 1307
Speech of Sir Sam Hughes, 1307 Winning of the war, 1310 Charges of extravagance against the Government, 1310 High cost of living, 1313 Revenue and expenditure, 1314 Taxation proposals, 1315 Intercolonial railway, operation of, 1316 Canadian Government Railways Construction and betterment, 3387 Intercolonial
Grand Narrows bridge, 2321 Management and operation, 773 Milford ballast pit, 2320 Peniac bridge, 2320
Government Railways Act Amendment, 4363
Canadian Northern Railway, acquisition of, 5143
Cape Bald breakwater, 3873 Cost of living, 2005
Customs duties payable by provincial governments, 2135 Dorchester county election, 173 Fisheries officers, 2164
Food products, price and control of, 1313 Government Railways Act Amendment, 4363
Indians, 1892
Inland Revenue Department estimates, 3843
Labour problems, 1173 Migratory birds, 3658 Military Service, 3075 Moncton armoury site, 4787 National service, 170
National Transcontinental Railway, removal of rails, 2225 Patriotic Fund, 3077 Pensions, 6031
Copp, Mr. A. B.-Con.
Proportional representation, 917 Railway Act, The, 3442 Sackville wharves, 3878 Soldiers, votes for, 1401, 4703 Taxation, 1315
Telegraph and telephone lines, 5382 War-time Elections Bill, 5610 Wilfrid C., boat, 4062
Cost of living
See O'Connor, Mr. W. F., K.C., also Cold storage
Council of Indian Tribes of Canada Incorporation Bill, lr., 3902
Courcelette, steamer, 1377
Court, Pte. Harry Ivan, request for discharge of, 3295
Courts, See Justice
Coutts quarantine reserve, 590
Cox, John, position of, 1472
Criminal Code Amendment Bills
Alien enemies prohibited from voting (No.
59, Mr. Currie), lr., 1862 Capital punishment, abolition of, (No. 3, Mr. Bickerdike), lr., 46; 2r„ moved, 325, negatived, 1028-1036
See Capital Punishment Contract prices, prohibition of, (No. 21, Mr. Knowles), lr., 386;	2r., moved,
1617; debate adjourned, 1627 Insurance (No. 54, Mr. Doherty), lr., 1773;
2r„ 2104; com., 4388; 3r., 4395 Jurors, (No. 97, Mr. Doherty), lr., 2567; 2r„ 4293; com., 4318; 3r., 4383. Six months' hoist, moved by Mr. Lemieux, negatived, 4307
Non-support; foster parents; bawdy houses; insolvent traders; constables' fees, (No. 124, Mr. Doherty), lr., 4291; 2r., 4463; com., 4463; 3r., 4466 Racing meets, limitation of, (No. 2, Mr. Wilcox), lr., 8; 2r„ 313-324
Cromwell, Mr. F. R. (Compton)
Live stock purchases, 2279 Railway Act, The, 3604
Cross point wharf, 988, 1228, 1571
Crothers, Hon. T. W. (Minister of Labour) Army
Camps, sale of liquor in, 831
Soldiers, voting of, 4702 Assistant Deputy Minister of Labour, abolition of office of, 686 Budget, 1267
The extravagant waste of time in the House, 1267
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Administration of Labour Department, 1269
The labour situation, 1270 The coal situation, 1275 Food prices, 1273 Coal
Questionnaire concerning, 1996 Sale, regulation of, 1275 Western mining of, 159, 614, 1266, 1372, 1616, 2295, 2570, 2653, 2776 Food
Control of sales and prices, 1273, .1989, 2083
Flour, price of, 1043 High cost of living, 695 Industrial Dieputes Investigation Act, 1112, 1168, 1270
Labour Department
Administration of, 1269 Estimates, 686, 1112, 1166, 1989, 3652 LandTy, Mr. Justice, findings of, 5248 Le Canada, correction of statement in, 2571
Military Service, 2483 Referendum, 2487
O'Connor, Mr. W. F., K.C., inquiry and report by, 3652, 3925 Strikes, prevention of, 1270 Technical education, 1236 Thetford mines labour trouble, 1118 War-time Elections Bill, 5867 Yukon, cost of living in, 2199, 2481, 2525
Cruise, Mr. Robert (Dauphin)
Budget, 1432
Taxation of profits, 1432 Government expenditure, 1434 Free wheat, 1435 Proposed Highways Bill, 1435 Manitoba boundaries extension, 1435 Campbell, Duncan J., 758 Chabot, Lt.-Col., 988 Free wheat, 1435
Glen, Col. Joseph, payments to, 1377 Railway Act, The, 3520, 3550 Railway transportation for members of Parliament, 3520 Smith's Falls postmaster, 1570 Taxation of business profits, 1432
Cunningham, Frances Henry, payments to, 1125
Currie, Mr. John A. (North Simcoe)
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Companies, incorporation of, 5926, 5928 Criminal Code amendments, Jurors, 4299 Dominion Lands Act Amendment, 3801, 3805-3817
France, trade relations with, 2310, 2318 Gordon Divorce Bill, 5498, 5905 Grand Trunk Pacific Railway Company Branch Lines Company, 1375 Imperial Preference, 1584 Loans to farmers, 1965 Martell, Lt. L. A., 5914 Military Service Classes, 3293, 3356
Exemptions, 3221, 3228, 3279, 3304, 3367 General provisions, 3243, 3252 Great Britain, in, 2908 Regulations, 3316
Reinforcements, need of, 2904, 2915 Selective draft, 2916 O'Connor, Mr. W. F., report of, 3752 Packages, marking of-inspection and sale,-4069
Parliament, printing of, 5949, 5950 Pensions, 6008	[DOT]
Railway Act, The, 3548 Rifles, importations of, 1125 Rural mail carriers, 3643 Shipbuilding, 1584, 5449 Soldiers,
Parcels for, 3644 Returned, 1586 Votes for, 4775, 4832 Widows of, 3805 Steyner public building, 5412 Taxation, proposals of the Government, 2912
Telegraphs and telephones, 3548 War
Canada's part in the, 2906 Prosecution of, 1576 War-time Elections Bill, 5762, 5845 Currie, Col. J. A., M.P., military position and pay of, 595
Currie, General, despatch from, 4510 Customs
Bonded goods, shipments of, 1854 Department
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Estimates, 643, 1843, 1881, 5098, 5777 Motor boats in use by, 3759 Motor car of, 1476 North Sydney officials, 1852 Staff and salaries, 643, 1843, 5908, 5777 See also Civil Service
Drawbacks, payments of, 1818 Forms, printing of in French and English, 3133, 3134
Minister of, private car for, 5082 Preventive service, 1881 Revenue cruisers, 1881 Unclaimed goods, disposal of, 3743
Customs Act Amendment Bill
Duties payable on Crown's goods. Res., 1978. lr., 1985.	2r., 2119. Com., 2121.
Rep., 2136.	3r., 2137
Customs Tariff,
Alcohol, proposed free admission for hospital use, 5103 Apples, 1472, 1615 Bags and sacks, 1867 Beans for seed, 671 Bran and middlings, 1867 British preference, proposed increase, 1776 Crown, goods of the, dutiable. See Customs Act Amendment Bill FaYm implements, 1686, 1708 Fertilizer, 1709
Food, proposed additions to the free list, 1776-1790 Gasolene, 1675 Hospital supplies, 5103 Imperial Munitions Board imports, 1978 Provincial governments, duties payable by, See Customs Act Amendment Bills
Dagneau, John F., position of, 1471 Dairying. See Agriculture Dalhousie, N.B., militia buildings, 454 Danis, Joseph Maximilian, employment of, 2618
Davidson, Mr. Avard L. (Annapolis)
Army, soldiers, voting of, 4709, 4712, 4772 Carroll, Lieut. W. F., M.P., 6066 Douglas, Captain J. M„ M.P., 6066 Ellis, Captain J. F., M.P.P., 6066 Neely, Captain D. B., M.P., ^066 Nova Scotia public works, 5320 Ralston, Major J. L., M.P.P., 6067 Schaffner, Mr. L. P., dismissal of, 441 Taxation, income, 4136 Telegraph and telephone lines, 5376 War-time Elections Bill, 5733, 5737
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Descarries, Mr. J. A.-Con.
Imperial War Conference, 15 Expiration of term of Parliament, 15 Progressive policies of present administration, 16
Fiftieth anniversary of Confederation, 16 Military Service Bill, 2982 Appeals, 3184 Burden of proof, 3323 Tribunals, 3172
Railway Act, The, 3441, 3444 Desjardins, Lt.-Col., employment of, 1818 Devlin, Mr. Emmanuel B. (Wright)
Address in reply to the Governor General's Speech, 244, 249 National unity and harmony, 244 Recruiting figures, 245 Quebec and the war, 247 Patriotic policy of Liberal party, 248 Statements of Hon. Mr. Blondin, 250 Attitude of the Government, 250 Blondin, Hon. Mr., alleged statements of. 250
Burgess, defalcation of, 1127 Canadian Expeditionary Force, 1576 Canadian Northern railway, 4863 Civil Service
Disfranchisement of civil servants, 2021 Salaries, 1038, 2010
Grain for breweries and distilleries, 1176 Judges' salaries, 5797 Military Service Bill, 2731 Authority under Militia Act, 2732 Contraventions of Act, 3332 Persons liable for service, 3129 Quebec province, position of, 2736 Referendum proposals, 2736 Tribunals, 3153 Milsom, Major J. C., 1265 Recruiting, 245
Folkstone director of, 1226 Spittal, Lt.-Col. C. D., 1127 War loan bonds, 2774
War taxation, use of funds obtained from, 4147
DeWolfe, Fred. T., position of, 5703 Digby,
Government lands, 2321 Indian lands, 304
Dillon, Major G. A., appointment of, 1958, 4061 Distilleries. See Grain and Alcohol
Divorce, Committee to revise rules governing, 4192, 4291 See Gordon Divorce Bill
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Customs, Crown's goods, 1983, 2119 Davidson Commission report, 524 Exchequer Court expenses, 1811 Government Railways Act amendment, 4368 Interest Act Amendment Bill, 2569, 3401 Judges
Appointment of, 1807 Salaries. See Judges Act- Amendment Bill
Saskatchewan and Ontario, 1973 Yukon, 5896
Judges Act amendment, 2137, 5954, 6062 Justice Department, estimates, 1805, 5896, 6033
Kelly, Thomas, 1813, 4926, 5794 McLeod-Tellier Commission, 2357, 4291 Military service, 3016 Appeals and appeal tribunals, 3184, 3301 Authority of Parliament, 3031 Burden of proof, 3320 Classes, division into, 3353, 3359 Contraventions of Act, 3326, 3351 Enforcement, 3264
Exceptions and exemptions, 3303, 3307, 3568
Referendum proposals, 3028 Tribunals, 3153, 3168, 3296, 4193, 5881 Military Voters' Bill, 4406, 4688, 4742, 4792, 4874, 4889, 5956
Pelagic Sealing Treaty, claims under, 5977 Penitentiaries
Kelly, Thomas, treatment of, 1813, 4926,
Officials' salaries, 6039 Prisoners, proposed enlistment of, 1013, 1814
Pensions, 6039
Post Office Department, estimates, 2352, 2360, 3634, 6051 Prices, contract fixing of, 1624 Provincial legislatures, powers of, 1808 Provincial prohibitory legislation, Bill in aid of, 4192, 4395, 5514 Woman suffrage, 1491
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Dominion Canners Company, 1105, 1289 Dominion Day; fiftieth anniversary. See Confederation
Dominion Lands Act Amendment Bills
General (No. 107, Mr. Roche), lr., 2832. 2r„ 3793. Com., 3793
Patents (No. 12, Mr. McCraney), lr., 159. Withdrawn, 1157 Dominion Lands and Parks
Animals in, 1359 Estimates, 1344, 4917 Forest reserves, 1349 Officials, 1675 See Parks
Dominions, overseas, constitutional relations of, 1528, 1531
Dominions Royal Commission, 599, 2338 Donaldson, Mr. Samuel J. (Prince Albert) Army camps, sale of liquor in, 816 Dorchester county election, 92. Ill, 120, 146, 173, 208, 255, 293 Dorchester County Railway, 5361 Dorchester, N.B.
Penitentiary. See Penitentiaries Wharf, 3874
Douglas, Mr. James M. (Strathcona)
Apples, duty on, 1472, 1715
Army, forestry battalions, 3950
Dominion Lands Act amendment, 3805
Flour, price of, 5211
Gasolene, duty on, 1875
Grain
Elevators, 3705 Wheat, fixing of price of, 3705 Military Service Bill, 3051 Patriotic Fund allowances, 3952 Tariff revision, 1714 War-time Elections Bill, 5604 Douglas, Captain J. M„ position of, 6066 Drake, steamship, duty on cargo of, 4245 Dredging. See Public Works Dropped order. See Parliamentary Procedure Drummond, T. J., steamer, 669, 4925, 4939 Dry Dock Subsidies Act Amendment Bill. Res., 4455. lr., 5771.	2r„ 5887. Com.,
5915. 3r„ 5918
Dubreuil, Mr., dismissal of, 3635 Dussault, Mr. Albert, employment of, 457 Dynamite outrages
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Edmonton, enlistments, 336. 3373 Edmonton, Dunvegan and British Columbia Railway, subsidy to, 4925 Edson, Alta., population of, 1816 Edward Vi I, monument to His late Majesty, 3897
Edwards, Mr. J. W. (Frontenac)
Address in reply to the Governor General's Speech, 204 The war, 204
Political patronage in purchase of war supplies, 205
Patriotic Fund separation allowances, 207
Military appointments, 207 Maritime Province elections, 207 The Dorchester compaign, 208 Recruiting in Quebec. 213, 221 Statements of the leader of the Opposition, 218, 220
Naval policy of Liberal party, 219 Extension of term of Parliament-votes for soldiers, 223 National ideals, 224 Bran and shorts, duty on, 1875 Budget, 1209
The record of the Liberal party, 1209 Canada's trade, 1211 Free wheat, 1212 Vessels for carrying flour, 1213 Free trade, 1214 Scarcity of food, 1216 Improvement of highways, 1217 The leader of the Opposition, 1219 Proposed general election, 1220 Cattle, British embargo on, 922 Censorship, 5943 Dorchester county election, 208 Experimental farms, 2055 Food, scarcity of, 712, 1216 Free wheat, 1212 Gordon Divorce Bill, 5500 High cost of living, 712, 1216 Highways, improvement of, 1217 Home defence recruiting officers, 3134 Horses, glandered, 2056 House of Commons stenographers, 5789 Immigration agents, 4914, 5361 Judges' salaries, 5799. See, under this head. Supreme Court Lavergne, Mr. Armand, 2619 Mail clerks, French-speaking, 5272 Military districts Nos. 3 and 10, 455 Military service, 2715, 3221 National service cards, 667, 713
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Inspection, 2035
Inspector Fisher, 2170 Investigation of problems, 5288 Laws, violation of, 2389 Licenses, 2051, 2182 Lobsters, 2049, 2117, 2154, 4171, 5425 Marketing, 2037, 2042 Ministry of, proposed, 2026 Officers, 2151, 2157,' 2161 Oysters, 2174 Patrol service, 2183 Protection service, 4163, 4166, 4170 Salt for curing purposes, 1027, 1319, 1373, 2044, 2290, 3536 Sardine fisheries, 4168 Telephone method of fishing, 2176 Transportation, 2031, 2042, 3392, 3556, 4933 Trawlers, steam, 300 Whitefish, 2159
Fisheries Act Amendment Bill. Res, 2116. lr„ 2118. 2r., 2149. Ref, to Com., 2149. Com., 3399.	3r„ 3400
Fisher, Mr. John H. (Brant)
Recruiting in Paris and Burford, 601. Soldiers, votes for, 1386
Flags on public buildings, 4146 Flavelle, Sir Joseph, letter from, 2956, 4010 See O'Connor and Food Flax industry, 4683 Flour. See Grain Food
Adulteration of, 23S7 Bacon and lard, 3915, 5274 Beef, exports and imports of, 1574 Butter. See Agriculture Cheese. See Agriculture Control of, 108, 695, 1304, 1313, 1427, 1989, 2076, 2471, 2509, 2580, 3045, 3744 Australia, in, 963 Prices, 3918 Sugar, 1992 Controller
Appointment, 2433
Office, and assistants, 3502, 4413, 4414, 4244	[DOT]
PoW'ers of, 3943 See also Food Products Eggs, exports and imports of, 1573 Fish, committee on supply of, 3400 Flour, 700, 1868, 5207
Prices and profits, 1039, 1088, 5085 Yukon, in, 2237 See also Grain.
Imports and exports of, 1573 Inspectors, 607
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Exchequer Court cases, 335 Government railways
Intercolonial, pension fund, 1476 Promotion of employees, 763 Jenkins, Lieut.-Col. S. R„ 5422 Leigh, Major, 5422 L'Espdrance, Hon. D. O., 4511 Lighthouse keepers' salaries, 3134 Louisville post office, 899 Military service, 2746 Exceptions, 3566 Recruiting in Quebec. 2748 Patent medicines, 335, 985, 1470 Riou, Mr. C S„ 3904 Riviere du Loup, ferry service, 452 Seed grain for eastern Canada, 1150 Steamship service, Quebec, 2318 Temiscouata mail contract, 335 Thompson, Dr. Alfred, M.P., 5083 Gazelle, Noel, enlistment of, 337 Geological surveys, 4179
Georgian Bay Canal Commission, 452, 989, 3900, 5913
German, Mr. William M. (Welland)
Army
Equipment, 559 Medical service, 559, 3989 Officers, alleged surplus of, 560, 564 Recruiting, 560, 2631
Soldiers, voting of, 4701, 4718, 4818, 48934914
Canadian Northern Railway, acquisition of, 4026, 4254, 4869, 4960, 5049, 5189 Civil servants, compulsory retirement of. alleged, 2059
Grand Trunk Pacific Railway Branch Lines Company, 1375
High Commissionership, 4177 Loans to farmers, 1961 Military Service, 2630	_
Racing meets, limitation of, 322 Railways,
Government policy in regard to, 2219, 2221
Senate, proposed change in constitution of, 1131
Situation, inquiry into, 3408, 3414 Submarine warfare, 334 Taxation of income, 4072 Trent canal, 3405 War supplies,
Boots, 4062
Equipment generally, 559 Munitions, 5525 War-time Elections Bill, 5755 Welland canal, 3402 Woman suffage, 1508
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Surplus, purchases of, 1126 Telegram from Non-Partisan League, on, 4512, 4564, 4661 United States tariff on, 1342 Grande Prairie immigration hall, 1575, 1817 Grand Trunk Pacific Branch Lines Company Bills
1.	Bill No. 33 (Mr. Currie) lr., 585; withdrawn, 667
2.	Bill No. 41 (Mr. Currie) lr., 843; 2r., 896;
com., 1375; 3r., 1445 Grand Trunk Pacific Railway
Financial statements respecting, 4058 Loan to. 5292
Removal of rails from, 5293 Report of Drayton-Acworth Commission, 4011
Gravel, Lieut. GedOon, 1674 Gravelle, Mr. Oscar, position of, 1226 Great Britain, military service in, 2908 See Army Act
Great War Veterans Association, 1574
Green, Mr. Robert F. (Kootenay)
Railway Act, The, 3514, 3542, 3545 Telegraphs, provisions governing, 3542 Grenier, Mr. Armand, employment of, 3757 Grey, Ambrose, employment of, 1818 Grilse, H.M.C.S., 4563 Grosse Isle quarantine station, 5306 Guthrie, Mr. Hugh (South Wellington)
Bags and sacks, duty on, 1873 Bran and shorts, 1874
Canadian Northern Railway, acquisition of, 5035
Coalition government, 2463 Enlistment, voluntary, 2454 Gordon Divorce Bill, 5502, 5903 Grain for breweries and distilleries, 1179 Military service, 2452
Personal, attitude respecting, 3721 Tribunals, 3300
Soldiers	-
Returned, care of, 470 Voting of, 4410 Tariff revision, 1780 Taxation
Income, 1783, 2453 Wealth, 2453
War-time Elections Bill, 5598 Windsor immigration officer, 2357 Guysborough public building, 5914 Gwatkin, General, administration of military affairs by, 4419	______
Halifax
Dry docks, 5915 Railway terminals, 2214
Halifax & Eastern Railway, contractors, 304 Hansard. See House of Commons Hants county apple inspectors, 1380 Harbours. See Public works '	.
Hardy, Lieut. M. R., employment of, 4509 Harris, Capt. R. V., position of, 5422
Hay, inspection and grading of, 3402
See Inspection and Sale Act Amendment Bill
Hazen, Hon. J. D. (Minister of Marine and Fisheries)
Army
French front, visit to, 1563 Pensions, 1610 Wet canteens, 1561
British Admiralty, recruiting for, 4163 Coal, transportation of, 4791 Dry docks, 5887 Fish and fisheries
Advisory Board, 2151 Canneries, 2117, 3399 Department
Appointments, 2149 Estimates, 2149 Dogfish, 2176 Exhibit at Toronto, 2033 Herring, 2036 v Inspection, 2035
Lobsters, packing of, 5426 Ministry of, proposed, 2030 Officers, 2163 Transportation, 2031 White fish, 2159
Fisher, Mr. Ward, appointment of, 2170 Fisheries Act Amendment Bill, 3399 Gwatkin, General, 4426 Imperial War Conference, 1556 Lake of the Woods water level, 4178 Live stock, shipments, inspection of, 1842 Marine Department, estimates, 1815, 1836, 1881, 1912
Meat and Canned Foods Act, 2114, 3400 Minto, steamer, food supplies for, 2175 Naval Service Department, estimates, 4157 Ocean Telegraph Act, 2024, 2108 Overseas Military Forces, Minister of, 4426 Public Works Department estimates, 5890 Pugsley, Mr, statement of, 5274 Quebec harbour advances, 435, 577 Royal Naval College, 4163 St John harbour, 4187, 5892 Shipbuilding, 1557, 1665, 1912, 4164
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Universal Radio Syndicate, Limited, 2024, 2108
War-time Elections Bill, 5717 Heals station rifle range, 1573, 1675 Heatherton, N.S, mail contract, 1817 Henderson, Mr. Geo. F., K.C., position of, 4010, 4211, 4243 See O'Connor
High Commissioner, Canadian, Office of, 4177 High cost of living, 129, 961, 2076, 2055 Yukon, in, 2199
See also Customs Tariff Act; Food Products; Price; O'Connor.
Highways, improvement of, 1217 Hindu immigration, 2145 Hobbs, Mr. Hugh, 1228 Home Defence, 336, 1038, 2628, 3955 Officers, recruiting of, 3134 Homesteads
Patents, delay of, 3759 Regulations, 1741, 1746 Settlers' names, 1819 See also Dominion Lands Act Amendment Bill
Hopetown post office, 989, 1474 Horses. See Agriculture Hospitals Marine, 1953 Military
Canadian Hospital No. 8, 1674 Conditions in, 54, 59, 464 Construction of in Canada. 4045 European, 527 Hospital trains, 2205 Parliament Hill, on, 1228 See Military Hospital Commission, and Canadian Army Medical Service House of Commons
Accountant's office, lease of premises, 5703 Business of the
Adjournments. See also general title Adjournment Ascension Day, 1422 Dominion Day, 2620 Imperial War Conference, for, 117, 597 Victoria Day, 1628 See also general title Adjournment Daily routine orders, 1423, 1524 Morning sittings, 2619, 2755, 2833 Private Bills, extension of time, 585 Saturday sittings, 344, 2569 Wednesday sittings, 324 Clerk of the House, retirement of Dr. Flint, 6043, 6069
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Hansard, cost of, 607 Members
. Active service, on, 713 Deceased, tributes to, 3 New, introduction of, 7 Sessional indemnity of, 5790, 6043 Messengers, proposed increases in salaries to, 4684, 6053 Officials
Appointments, 586, 642, 843, 1956 Deputy Sergeant-at-arms, 3 Library, clerk in, 2832 Pages, chief of, 522
Reporting Branch, 522, 5636, 5702, 5786,
Salary increases to, 4834 Secretaryship abolished, 5702 Translator, Chief, 522 Troop, Mr. Herbert D., 434 Returns, complaint of delay in bringing down, 1373	.
Sergeant-at-Arms, death of, 6069 Speaker, election of, 1 See Speaker
Speaker's quarters, 5784
Effects removed and returned, 2058 Stenographers, 5788 Vacancies, 1, 605, 2836 Howe, Lieut. M. J., position of, 6066 Hudson Bay Railway Expenditure, 596, 900 Terminals, 2205
See Canadian Government Railways Hughes, Mr. J. J. (Kings, P.E.I.)
Address in reply to the Governor General's Speech, 231 Naval affairs, 236 Purchase of war supplies, 232 Record of the present administration, 231 The Ross rifle, 235
Statements of ex-Minister of Militia, 234 Agricultural Instruction Act, payments under, 455
Bartlett, Major, 4292, 4416 Bruce report, publication of, 3845 Campbell, Capt. G. H., 4508 Canadian Northern Railway, acquisition of, 5044
De Wolf, Fred. T., 5703 Ex-Minister of Militia, correspondence relating to resignation of, 991 Fullerton, Major T. F., 4508 Government Railways Act amendment, 4352, 4385
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Hardy, Lieut. M. R., 4509 Intoxicating liquor, 4396, 4404
Carriage on government railways, 591 James Simmonds Co., 5122 Labourers from the United States, 1193 Machine guns, 452
Magdalen islands steamship service, 2302 McQueen, Lieut. W. A., 4503 Military District No. 6, 5237 Military service, 2971 Referendum, 2977 Moffatt, Lieut. R. J., 5361 ^Potatoes
Marketing of, 5989 Powdery scab, 2269 Prince Edward Island Medical officers, 4563
Patriotism of men of the province, 2974 Railway, widening of, 3902, 3945 Steamship service, 660, 3954 Princess Louise Fusiliers officers, 5271 Quebec, recruiting in, 2972, 2977 Ross rifle, 235 Shipbuilding, 1335 Souris breakwater, 3871 Steamship services, 2326 United Mine Workmen of Nova Scotia, 802 War-time Elections Bill, 5664 Hughes, Sir Sam (Victoria, Ont.)
Address in reply to the Governor General's Speech, 253
Appreciation of British military assistance, 253
Personal attitude and policy, 254, 271 Col. Armand Lavergne, 256 Dorchester campaign, 255 Canadian troops in the South African war, 256
Troubles in administration of military affairs, 256
Status of Canadian forces, 259 Military equipment, 262 Appointment of General Steele, 264 Method of purchasing war supplies, 265 Disposition and command of Canadian forces, -268 Recruiting, 269
Canadian industries and the war, 270 Army
Badges of identification, 5953 Canteens, 808
Enlistment, voluntary, 2434-2449 Medical service, 537, 4199, 4466 Recruiting
Correspondence with Prime Minister,
Hughes, Hon. Sir Sam-Con.
Soldiers, voting of, 4898 60th Battalion, 525 Bruce, Dr., report of, 602 Canadian overseas forces Despatch of to the front, 574 Disposition and command of, 268 Status of, 259 . Canteens, open, 536 Currie, Mr. J. A., statement of, 5773 Hospitals, military-Bruce and Babtie commissions, 538
Irish, Mr. Mark, statements of, 2707
Leeward, General, 368
Maclean, Mr. A. K., statements of, 2777
Military equipment, 262
Military service, 3135
Authority of Canada, 2435 Classes, calling out by, 3137 Compulsion, advantages of, 2438 Correspondence with Prime Minister, 2434, 2446, 2449 Labour, requirements of, 2441 Recruiting, alleged retarding of, 2442 Officers
Reversion in rank-pay in such cases, 5423
Unemployed, 573
Overseas Military Forces, Minister of, 4198, 4207, 4419, 4422, 4444 Administrative staff, 4956, 4959 Pay and Records Office, 3106 Recruiting, 269, 366, 379
Correspondence with Prime Minister, 2446
Lessening of, reasons for, 2442 Resignation of, 602 Ross rifle, 416, 480-493, 2451 Steele, General, appointment of, 264 Von Donop, Stanley, 523 War supplies, method of purchasing, 265 Hughes, Brig.-Gen. W. S., position of, 5361 Hyde, Mr. J. W„ position of, 301 Hydrographic surveys, 4173 Immigration Agents, 1737, 1754
Clergymen and priests employed as, 5361 Montreal, 5122 Quebec, 5122
United States, in, 4914, 5361 Chinese. See Chinese Immigration Act Amendment Bill
Department, estimates, staff and salaries, 4914
Deportation and rejection, 803 Figures, 803
Forms, printing of in French, 899, 3133,
Officers in Quebec, 3135 Rejected men, 3099
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French-Canadians in the United States, 4914
Hindu, 1763	.
Inspection, 803
Military service, exemption of immigrants from, 1572 Officers Salaries, 2245 Windsor, at, 2357 Quarantine stations, 5306, 5312 Regulations, 372, 525 Regulations, Chinese immigration, 447 Rejection of undesirables at N. B. ports, 454
Rimouski, immigrants landed at, 4151 United States, from, 1739, 1747 See also Emigration
Imperial Munitions Board
Clerks, 305
Construction of ships by, 1661, 1663, 1913 Imports, 1978 Labour, 1985 Employees, 5271
Imperial preference, 1532, 1584
Imperial War Cabinet and Imperial War Conference
Adjournment of Parliament, 117, 596, 603 Announcement of meeting, 42 Attendance of Canadian Prime Minister, 597, 603, 1525
Correspondence with Colonial Secretary, 5, 24
Minutes of, extracts from', 2354 Proceedings of, 1525 Cattle embargo, 1535 Dominions overseas, constitutional relations of, 1528, 1531
Development and control of natural resources, 1532 Imperial preference, 1532 India, representation of, soldiers' graves, 1534
References to, 15, 24, 42, 148, 294 Statements by British Prime Minister, 2354 Statement by Mr. Hazen, 1556
Imperial War Graves Commission, 1534
Income War Tax Bill. Res., 3765. lr., 3793. 2r., 4070. Com., 4070, 4102, 4124.	3r.,
4638. Senate amdts., 5475; no precedent, 5476, 5883; amendment proposed: Mr. Pardee, 4639; ruled out, 4648
India, representation of,-Imperial War Conference, 1534
Indians .
Agents, Bear River, 1569 Department of Indian Affairs, estimates, 1891, 2340, 2346 Lands of, 1887, 2348, 2389 Cutting timber on, 1889, 1901 Surveys of, 1894
Valuation and protection of, 1887 See also, under this head, Provinces and Reserves Provinces, in
British Columbia, 653, 1896, 2340 New Brunswick, 1889 Northwest Provinces and Territories, 1894
Nova Scotia, 1887, 2349 Ontario, 1886 Quebec, 1886 Reserves, 989 Blaelifoot, 2389 Caughnawaga, 1735 Digby, 304 Edmunston, 4920 Kitsilano, 1129, 1899 Okanagan, 1378, 2341 Sydney, 3663
Royal Commission, British Columbia, 653, 1038, 1896
Industrial and Scientific Research Bureau
Advisory council, 5279 Expenses, 5276
See also Research Council Bill and Technical education
Industrial Disputes Investigation Act. See
Labour
Industrial requirements See Labour Inland Revenue
Department
Appointments in 1916, 758 Employees at Montreal, 758 Estimates, 2360, 3817 Expenditure, 2380 Preventive, officers, 3837, 3847 Staff and salaries, 2360, 3380 Insolvent Traders. See Criminal Code Amendment Bills
Inspection and Sale Act Amendment Bill.
Res., 4065. lr., 4070. Withdrawn, 5887 Insurance Civil Service, 3503
Premiums of men in military service, 3557 See also Criminal Code Amendment Bills Insurance Act of 1910 Reenactment Bill. ir >
1724.	2r., 2100. Ref. to Com., 210l!
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Mr. W. H. Bennett
Bill No 45; lr., 1037; *withdrawn, 1157 Bill No. 50; lr., 1568
Intercolonial Railway. See Canadian Government Railways
Interest Act Amendment Bill, lr., 2569. 2r., 3401. Com., 3401.	3r., 3402
Interest on judgments, 900 Interior Department
Appointments to under section 21, 1351 Calgary offices, 668 Estimates, 652, 1344, 1735, 4916 Expenditure, 1344
French-speaking employees of, 2340 Orders in Council relating to, 6000 Political activity of employees, 2349 Internal Economy Commission, 45 International Fisheries Commission, 892 International surveys, 1735 Interprovincial bridges, 3888 Intoxicating liquors Army camps, in See Army Manufacture and sale of, 454 ' Prohibition of, 2008
See also "The Fiddlers" and Canada Temperance Act
Prosecutions for sale of, 1575 Sale of, 3818
See also Provincial Prohibitory Legislation
Inverness harbour improvements, 5325 Irish-Canadian Rangers. See Army Jack, Mr. E. Bryden, position of, 4508 J affray, Mr. J. P., position of, 4062 Jails. See Penitentiaries Jameson, Mr. Clarence (Digby)
Fisheries, proposed ministry of, 2026 Military Service Bill, 2969 Soldier Settlement Board, 3784 Technical education, 1243 James Simmonds Co., The, purchase of goods from, 5122
Jamesville breakwater, 5328 Jenkins, Lieut.-Col. S. R., duties and pay of, 5422
Joffre, General, 613
Judges Act Amendment Bill. Res., 1973. lr., 1978.	2r„ Com., 2136.	3r., 2137. Sen.
amdt., 5954, 6062 Judgments, interest on, 900
See Interest Act Amendment Bill [DOT] Justice
Administration of, 1805
Baugh, Edward Levi, case of, 1814
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Appointment of, 1806 Provincial commissions, on, 593 Salaries, 1973, 5798, 5954 Saskatchewan and Ontario, 1973 Yukon, 5896
Minister of, payments to, 898, 1225 Provincial legislatures, powers of, 1807, 1811 Supreme Court, Chief Justice of, special allowance to, 6049 Kay, Mr. William F. (Missisquoi)'
Ballots for overseas forces, 452 Food Controller's office,employees, 3502 Foster, Mr. A. De Witt, 303 Fuel Controller, staff of, 4245 Oleomargarine, prohibition of, 304 Parliament buildings, marble for, 2833 War profits and income tax-cost of collection, 4686
Kelly, Thomas, treatment of in penitentiary, and release of, 896, 4926, 5273, 5794 Kemp, Sir Edward (Minister of Militia and Defence)
Army
Camps, sale of liquor in, 815 Discharges, 3096 Enlistments Total, 3098 Voluntary, 3381 Forestry battalions, 3950 Medical service, 3967 Officers
Pay of, 1628
Retention of on leave, 5902 Salutes to, 5425 Surplus, 3103
Pay and Records office staff, 3104
Rejected men, 3099
Soldiers
Behaviour of, 5235 Personal requests concerning, 4203 Separation allowances, 4203 Civil servants, enlisted, pay and separation allowances to, 663 Expeditionary Force, disposition of, 2356 Home defence campaign, 2628 Irish-Canadian Rangers, 195 Lens, valour of Canadian soldiers at, 5195 Military service, 262Q, 3239 Classes, 3357
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Canadians in Imperial forces, to, 4688 Prisoners of war, 666
Money orders and parcels for, 714 Recruiting, 562
British subjects in the United States, 2482
Quebec, in, 2626
War affairs, Government, administration of, 3381
War Purchasing Commission, purchases by, 341
156th Battalion, 523
Kentville armoury	_
Caretaker, 4509 Militia stores, 4510
Knight, Mr. N. H. R., position of, 4952
Knowles, Mr. William E. (Moosejaw)
Army
Officers' wives, passports for, 3996 Soldiers, votes for, 4690, 4806, 4877 Budget, 887
Free wheat, 889
Canada Grain Act, proposed amendment, 2954
Canadian Government railways Private cars, 4938
Intercolonial, appointment of officials, 659 Canadian Northern railway, acquisition of, 4637, 5022
Civil Service salaries, 2946 Coal, shortage of, 2294 Western supply of, 4621 Coalition government, 2901 Daylight saving, 3686 Farming industry, development of, 1787 Flax industry, 4683 Flour prices, 5214 Food control, 2002 Free wheat, 889 Gordon Divorce Bill, 5498 Immigration
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Interior Department employees, political activities of, 2350
Legislators, free transportation for, 4935 Military service, 2895
Date of second reading of Bill, 2322 Referendum, 2900 Senate amendments, 4665 Mining industry, 657 Moosejaw, enlistments at, 5122 Moosejaw News, patronage, 2708 Mounted Police, Royal Northwest, 4670 Postal clerks, salaries, 2708 Prices, contract fixing of, 385, 1617 Public works expenditure, 5333 Racing meets, limitation of, 324 Refiault, Raoul, appointment of, 2371 Seed grain, 4678 Collections, 2351
Shipbuilding, British Columbia. 4940 Tariff revision, 1785 Taxation, income, 4075, 4105 Toronto, Hamilton and Buffalo railway, 2614
Toronto Telegram, statement of, 5085 Trade and Commerce Department, estimates, 2338 , War charities, 5493
War-time Elections Bill, 5637, 5658, 5721, 5810, 5818, 6083
Kyte; Mr. George W. (Richmond)
Address in reply to the Governor General's Speech, 195
Appointment of Senators for Nova Scotia, '196
The high cost of living-war profits, 197 National Service Commission, 200 Resignation of ex-Minister of Militia, 201 Canadian Army Medical Service, 201 . Separation allowances, 203 Political patronage in military affairs, 203 Army
Medical service, 201 Soldiers' assigned pay, 3224 Bear River post office site, 1378, 1569 Budget, 956
Free wheat, 956 Business profits, 959 High cost of living, 961 Control of foodstuffs in Australia, 963 Taxation of business profits, 965 Canadian Northern Railway, acquisition Of, 4041, 5010, 5165 Censors at Louisburg, 4008, 4048 Civil Serice appointments, 647


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Shortage of, 1919
Cost of living, O'Connor Commission report, 700, 961, 3914, 4010 Flour, 1039	.
Food control, 961, 988 Customs Department officials. 5101 Dawson post office, 4952 Dredge Cape Breton, loss of, 596, 1024, 3381 East Bay wharves, 5315 False Creek dredging, 900, 1126 Fish and fisheries, 2050 Advisory Board, 2152 Dogfish, 2179 Officers, 2157, 2161 Flags on public buildings, 4146 Flint, Dr., retirement of, 6044 Flour, price of, 1039 Food control, 1998
Fraser river channel improvements, 1126 Gordon Divorce Bill, 5904 Heals station rifle range, 1573 Imperial Munitions Board Labour, 1985 Inland Revenue Department officials, 2377 Intercolonial railway - improvement of grades, 456 Judges' salaries, 1974 Leblanc, Dr. B. A., 2283, 4416 Lewis machine guns, 590 Louisburg
Censors, 4008 Pilot Commissioners, 3677 Wireless station, 5122 Macdonald, Dr. J A., 2283 Mail contracts, 3636, 3639 Maritime Provinces military affairs, 5228 Military District No. 6, 5228 Military Hospitals Commission, 4243 Military service Exemptions, 5271 Tribunals, 3158
Militia Department estimates, 5221 National Service Commission, 200 Naval Service officers at Halifax, 6000 Neilly, Dr., position of, 2707 Nova Scotia public works, 5315, 5324 O'Connor report, 4010
Ogilvie Flour Mills Company, Limite>u, 1818, 2389, 3677
Ottawa Journal-Press-correction of statement, 3759
Pacific Dredging Company, 1126 Parliamentary secretaryships, 4211 Pensions, 6018
Point Tupper mail service, 3502 Pommery, Mr. Samuel, 4952 Port Malcolm wharf, 3866
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Recruiting, 2482
Returned soldiers, appointment of to gov-eernment positions, 6055 Richmond county medical officers, 3758 Ross rifle factory,, taking over of by the Government, 663 Salt, shortage of, 3556 Shipbuilding, 5434 Steamship services, 2325 Sydney industrial sites, 3956 Taxation
Business profits, 965 Income, 4115, 5291
Telegraph and telephone lines, 5336 Turner, Mr. Harvey, 1469 Urquhart, Mr. Hector, 5367 Vancouver drill hall site, 456 War supplies	*
Munitions contracts, 5526 Purchase of, 4053 Waterford- explosion, 5775 Women munitions workers, 4063 Y ukon
Administrator, 5122 Commissioner, 3677
Labour
Attitude of on military service, 2426, 2488, 2451, 2604, 2663, 2795, 2871, 2958, 3725, 3732
Australian labour troubles, 698 Bureaus, 118 Chinese labourers, 2139 Conditions on munition work, 2492 Department administration, 1269
Assistant Deputy Minister, abolition of office of, 686
Estimates, 686, 1112, 1166, 1989, 3652 Staff and salaries, 686 See also Mines and Minerals, Coal Fair wages and inspection officers, 3652 Farm labourers from the United States, 665, 1193, 1740, 1747, 3504, 4512' Government elevators, claims by employees, 386
Imperial Munitions Board, 1985 Industrial Disputes Investigation Act, 1112, 1166, 1270
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Women munitions workers, 4063 Lacasse, Mr. Isidore, employment of, 5272 Lachance, Mr. Arthur (Quebec Centre) Canadian Northern Railway, acquisition of, 5080, 5192
Faguy, Gaudiose, 2284 High cost of living, 2922 Military Service Bill, 2919 St. Charles river dam, 2525 Lafortune, Mr. David. A. (Montcalm) Canadian Northern Railway, acquisition of, 5072, 5187
Capital punishment, 632 Coalition government, 3014 Criminal Code amendment, jurors, 4335 Military service, 3004 Referendum, 3013 Montreal, postmaster, 582 Ottawa Journal-Press, statement in, 3085 War supplies, munitions contracts, 5541 Lake of the Woods water level, 2775, 4178 Lalor, Mr. Francis R. (Haldimand)
Budget, 1096
Comparision of Conservative and Liberal administrations, 1097 Revenue and expenditure, 1098 Our part in the war, 1098 Fiscal policies, 1101 Reciprocity, 1103
Dominion Canners Company, 1105 Civil Service salaries, 2245 Coal, 2097
War-time Elections Bill, 5876 Lanctot, Mr. Roch (Laprairie-Napiervilie) Arthurs, Lieut.-Col. James, 5914 Belford, Capt. J. F., 5703 Bernard, Lieut.-Col. E. S., 5703 Breadner, Mr. R. W., 3676 Budget, 1221
The farming situation, 1221 Free wheat, 1221 Embargo on hay, 1222 Canada's prosperity, 1223 The Nationalist party, 1224 Payments to Minister of Justice, 1225 Business Profits War Tax, 3676 Canadian Bank of Commerce, 4686 Canadian Northern Railway acquisition of, 5065
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National Service Commission employees, 4787
National Trust Company, directors of, 4685, 4417
Plaxton, Mr. C. P., 4416
Postmaster General, recruiting by, 4415 Rimouski
Immigrants, landing of, at, 4151 Medical officers, 4509 Public wrorks employees, 4244 War measures, 525 War Veterans Association, 1574 Wealth, conscription of, 2965
Landry, Mr. Justice, findings of, 3109, 3,609, 4512, 5248
Lapointe, Mr. E. (Kamouraska)
Civil Service employment of men in higher offices, 1260
Dussault, Albert, employment of, 457 Exchequer Court Act Amendment Bill, 1422 Inland Revenue Department estimates and officials, 361, 2364, 3825 Military service
Contraventions of Act, 3341 Exemptions, 3304, 6002 Voluntary enlistment, 2514 Referendum proposals, 2521 Provisions of the Militia Act, 2519 Quebec's position, 2515 Murray Bay railway service, 617 Quebec, available men for military service in, 3255
Riviere Ouelle-Murray Bay steamship service, 643
St. Roche Traverse light-keeper, 1378 War-time Elections Bill, 5807 Women in the Civil Service, 1260
Lapointe, Mr. Louis A. (Montreal, St. James) Alcoholic liquors, revenue from sale and manufacture of, 304 Army-Soldiers, voting of, 4725 Bank Act amendment, 1037 Canadian Northern Railway acquisition of, 5036
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Quebec's contribution of men, 3256 Recruiting, 2772 Quebec electoral lists, 6002 Senate Hansard, cost of, 1571 War-time Elections Bill, 5621, 5639, 5722, 5741, 5759, 5865
Laporte, Mr. Hormidas, payments to, 4510
Latchford, Ont., plant and buildings, sale of, 5706
Laurentian, steamer, 4563
Laurier, Rt. Hon. Sir Wilfrid (Quebec. East) Address in reply to, the Governor General's Speech, 17
Canada's Governor General, 17 The war situation, IS German peace proposals, 19 Our soldiers at the front, 20 Laxity of present administration, 20 Control of our military forces, 20 Equipment of Canadian troops, 23 The fiftieth Anniversary of Confederation, 24
Imperial War Conference, 24 Amqui-St. Leonard mail contract, 3903 Army
Camps, sale of liquor in, 813 Control of, by Canada, 20 Discharges, 3111 Equipment, 23 Recruiting
Quebec, in, 2395 Retarding of, 3094 Rejected men, 3101
Soldiers, voting of, 2403, 3727	[DOT]
Army Act, regulations, 3111 Balfourt Rt. Hon. A. J., address to, 1772 Canadian Northern Railway' acquisition of, 4216, 4625, 4635, 5128 Capital punishment, 622 Coalition government, 3727 Correspondence with Sir Robert Borden, 2690
Confederation, fiftieth anniversary of, 24 Connaught, the late Duchess of, 610 Daylight saving, 3681 Defence of Canada, 358 Fisheries protection service, 4166 Galt, Mr. Justice Report of, 2057
Rogers, Hon. Robert, criticism of, by, 599 Government Railways Act amendment, 4384 Grand Trunk Pacific Railway Branch Lines Company, 1375
Laurier, Rt. Hon. Sir W.-Con.
House of Commons Business of the House, 1524 Morning sittings, 2619, 2775 Saturday sittings, 325, 2569 Wednesday sittings, 325 Clerk of the House, retirement of, 6070 Officials, appointments of, 586 Rights of House in dealing with taxation, 5479
Speaker's quarters, 5784 Imperial War Conference, 24 Adjournment of Parliament, 118 Visit of Prime Minister to, 1542 Insurance, 3848 Intoxicating liquor, 4397 Landry, Mr. Justice, report of, 4152, 5250 Mace, vote of thanks to donors of, 1469 McLeod-Tellier Commission, 2357, 5245 Members, deceased, tributes to, 4 Migratory birds, 3657 Military Service, 3111, 3254 Appeals, 3177	...
Board of Selection, 5084 Burden of Proof, 3319 Classes, 3132, 3140
Conscription, need of, considered, 2396 Contraventions of Act, 3324, 3337 Exceptions, 3559 Exeihptions, 3207, 3362 Labour, attitude of, 3725 Men, available, 3724 Parliament, power of, 2392, 3723 Persons liable , for service, 3116 Quebec enlistments, 2398 Referendum, 2403, 3721, 3728 Senate amendments, 4663 Tribunals, 3149, 3165, 3296, 3575, 5880 Votes for soldiers, 3727 Mounted Police, Royal Northwest, 4668 National Service Commission, 309 Newsprint paper, 757
Overseas Military Forces, Minister of, 4195 Parliament
Extension of term of, 2396, 3420, 3484 Printing of, 5950, 5952 Parliamentary secretaryships, 4195, 4206 Pelagic Sealing Treaty, claims under, 5972 Point of order-Hon. Robert Rogers' reference to Mr. Justice Galt, 599 Prisoners, proposed enlistment of, 1014 Quebec and Saguenay Railway purchase and completion of, 303 Quebec harbour advances, 433 Railway Act, the, 606
Railway material, removal of to France, 310, 1372,
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Hindus, of, 1763, 2144 Japanese, of, 2144
Indians-Caughnawaga hospital, 1886 Inland Revenue Department Estimates, 3831 Officials, 3817 Montreal, at, 758
Insurance of war risks, 3557, 3589 Intercolonial railway, cars, shortage of, 1378
Intoxicating liquor Prohibition of, 4401 Sale of, 3819
Jack, Mr. E. Bryden, 4508 Kelly, Thomas, 4926, 5794 Labour bureaus, 118 Laval, steamer, 1470 Lessard, General, 363, 2055 Levis railway, station, 2208 Magdalen Islands Cable service, 5408 Steamship service, 2303 Mail matter, registration of, 668 Matane Harbour light, 1575 McWilliams, Mr., dismissal of, 2167 Military service
Burden of proof, 3318 Contraventions of Act, 3329 Enlistment - Canada compared with United States and France, 2463 Exceptions, 3560 Exemptions, 3131 Insurance of soldiers, 3557, 3589 Militia Act, provisions of, 2465 Persons liable to serve, 3117 Pledges of government, 2467 Quebec's position, 2473, 3137 Referendum, 2478 Regulations, 3316 Tribunals, 3158
Mining industry, development of, 4181 Mitchell, Private J. F„ death of, 1377 Montreal postmaster, 523, 581 O'Connor, Mr. W. F„ report of. 3746 Overseas Military Forces, Minister of, 4202, 4420, 4442 Parcel post, 2075
Parliamentary secretaryships, 4202, 4207, 4212, 4420
Parliamentary sessions, expense of, 1262 Quebec harbour advances, 577 Improvements, 3879
Quebec, Montmorency and Charlevoix; Quebec and Saguenay, and Lotbiniere and Megantic Railways, 4848, 5454 Railway Act, The, 3514, 3716 Railway company, advance to, 2100
Lemieux, Hon. R.-Con.
Ross rifle, the, 137 Rouville county mail carrier, 608 Ste. Anne bridge, 3888 Sainte Luce, changing of name, 673 St. Malo railway buildings, 1128 Soldiers, postage on parcels for, 1263 Soldier Settlement Board, 1165 Steamship service, France, 2307 Sulphur, embargo on, 4889 Taxation
Income, 3776, 4071, 4086 Wealth, 2469
Technical education, 1229, 1252 Telegraph service, 2108, 2113 Thompson, Mr., employment of, 4008 Vaudreuil bridge, 3888 Victoria bridge toll rates, 672 War, prisoners of, 4194 War-time Elections Bill, 5550, 5633, 5641 Washington Conference, Canadian delegates to, 1127
West Indies, promotion of trade with, 2289 Wharves, 1944
Lens, valour of Canadian soldiers at, 5195 Lessard, General, position and services of, 363, 365, 368, 2055 Levis railway station, 1129, 2208 Lewis, Mr. J. H., position of, 2944 Life insurance. See Insurance Life saving. See Naval Service Liquor. See Intoxicating liquors Little Bras d'Or dredging, 3886 Live Stock. See Agriculture Live Stock and Produce Bill. Res., 4287. lr., 4292. Ref. to Com., 4417. Com., 5503. 3r„ 5514
Loans
Farmers, to. See Bank Act Amendment Bills
Public. See Finance Lockhart, Mr. Hugh, employment of, 1265 Lockport Cold Storage Company, 2202 Loggie, Mr. William S. (Northumberland, N.B.)
Budget, 1280
Reply to Mr. Crothers, 1280 Canada's contributions to the war, 1282 Taxation proposals, 1282 Freer trade policies, 1283, 1287 Free wheat, 1286
The Dominion Canners Company, 1289 Reply to Mr. Edward's criticism of Sir Wilfrid Laurier, 1290 Coalition Government, 2988
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Dominion Canners Company, 1289 Fish and fisheries Development of industry, 2047 Dobsters, 2049, 2155, 5426 Free wheat, 1286
Government railways, branch lines, 2223 Military Sendee, 2984 Referendum, 2986 Recruiting, 380 Shipbuilding, 1929 Soldiers, voting of, 4778 Steamship service, 2311 Taxation
Business profits, 1645 Income, 4069
Lord's Day Observance Act
Suggested suspension of, 936 Lotbiniere and Megantic Railway Completion and operation of, 4948, 5452 Louisburg
Pilot Commissioners, 3677 Wireless station at, 5122 Louisville post office, 899 Lovett, James, dismissal of, 453, 759 Loyal Orange Order, 85, 91 Macdonald, Mr. E. M. (Pictou)
Address in reply to the Governor General's Speech, 47	[DOT]
The fiftieth anniversary of Confederation, 47
Imperial War Conference, 47 The War, 48
The present Government and the war, 49 Extension of term of Parliament, 50 Canada's participation in wars of the Empire, 51 Recruiting, 51 Political patronage, 52, 55 Conscription, 54
Conditions in military hospitals, 54, 59 Administration of military affairs, 54 Government expenditures, 60 The winning of the -war, 61 Aeroplane service, 805, 844 Army
Allowances, separation, 336,	383, 387,
Camps and canteens, 535, 820, 1266 Canteen system in England, 718 Conscription, 54, 893
Criticism of military affairs, duty of the Opposition, 571
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Farms, employment on, 1677 Medical treatment of, 3962 Voting of, 4692, 4704, 4729, 4741, 4786, 4792, 4834, 4876, 4887 Army and Navy Veterans, 5911 Assistant Deputy Minister of Labour, suspension of, 688
Babtie, report, Dr. Bruce's reply to, 669 Bull, Mr. Perkins, 1130 Canadian Government Railways Cars, purchase of, 4928 Coal purchases, 664, 667, 3388 United States, in, 592 Employees Magazine, 452 Level crossing near Trenton, 304 Quebec and Saguenay, etc., 5460 Safety-first inspectors, 337 Steamers, purchase of, 669 See under this head Government Railways Amendment Act and Intercolonial Railway
Canadian Northern Railway acquisition of, 4030, 4283, 4544, 4606-4618, 4628-4632, 4864, 4996, 5124 Carson, Major General, 986 Coal, Western mining of, 159, 614 Criminal Code amendments, jurors, 4296, 4322
Customs duties on goods of the Crown 1979, 1982
Dominions Royal Commission, 2338 Emigration of Canadians, 987 Food control, 2001, 3744
Supplies for Great Britain, 2260 France, trade with, 2312 Gordon Divorce Bill, 5904 Government Railways Act amendment, 4339, 4366, 4386 Grain, 4679
Gwatkin, General, 4419 Heals station rifle range, 1675 High cost of living, 695, 3935 ..Hospitals, military, 54, 59 Hudson Bay railway expenditure, 900, 5088
Immigration
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Industrial Disputes Investigation Act, 1123 Inland Revenue Department Estimates, 3825, 3827, 3833, 2842 Expenditure, 2380, 2384 Officials, 2360 Intercolonial Railway Cars, 2226
Employees, promotion of, 779 Operation of, 776 Judges' salaries, 5955 Kentville armoury Caretaker, 4509 Militia stores, 4510	,
Kitsilano Indian reserve, 1129 Loan ($100,000,000), 4416, 4621 Lobster fishing, 2155, 5425 Master mariners, 4416
Medically unfit persons, certificates to, 5423 Military bands, 4044 Military service, 2947 Board of Selection, 2954 Contraventions of Act, 3339 Exemptions, 2955 Labour, attitude of, 2958 Quebec, position of, 2959 Referendum, 2961
Minto, steamship-food supplies, 2179 Munitions contracts, 4928 New Glasgow-Mountville mail service, 1037 O'Connor, Mr. W. F., report of, 3935 Overseas Military Forces, Ministry of, 4417, 4442
Overseas Militia Department, non-combatant positions in, 4786 Parliament, extension of term of, 3478 Pelagic Sealing Treaty, claims under, 5958 Pensions, 6005-6033
Canadians in Imperial Forces, for. 4662 Pictou
Freight, handling of, at, 303 Marine and Fisheries agency, 304, 596, 1937
Rural mail routes, 900 Post Office Department, estimates, 2352 Prince Edward Island Car ferry, 2305 Freight for, 1037 Steamship service, 3389 Prisoners of war, 666
Provincial governments, duties payable by, 2119, 2129
Provincial legislatures, powers of, 1807 Public works expenditure, 1038 Railway Act, The, 3426, 3439, 3441 Railway Department, steamers purchased by, 669
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Army, soldiers' pay, 3217 Beans for seed, duty on, 671 Cold storage plants, 1628, 2078 Flour, price of, 1063 Food control, 2087 Grain, congestion in the West, 340 Henderson, Mr. Geo. F., K.C., 4243 Hogs, inspection of, 2271 Cholera, 2273_
Loans to farmers, 1965 Military service, 2785 Exemptions, 3218 Potatoes, supply of, 936 Titus, Private John, 2237 Tractor engines, duty on. 674 Training camps in Canada, 899 McCraney, Mr. Geo. E. (Saskatoon)
Alcohol for public institutions. 5103 Army, medical service, 3993 Budget, 949 Taxation, 951
Policies, after the war, 953 Canadian Northern Railway, acquisition of, 4551, 4633, 5174 Coal, western mining of, 2184 Dominion Lands Act Amendment Bills, 1157, 3805, 3811 Elrose mail service, 899 Fuel, 1417
Homestead patents, delay in, 3759 Immigrants-exemption from military service, 1572
Industrial Disputes Investigation Act, 1166 Military service, 2558 Enforcement, 2560 Exemptions, 1572, 3221, 3369 Referendum, 2559
Parliament, railway transportation for members of, 3519
Provincial legislators, free transportation for, 300, 683 Railway Act, The, 3519 Seed grain indebtedness, 302, 1126 Soldiers, returned, care of, 475 Soldier Settlement Board, 1164 Taxation, income, 3778, 4075, 4094, 4099 War-time Elections Bill, 5559, 5643-5702, 5712
McCrea, Mr. Francis N. (Sherbrooke)
Budget, 1300
Taxation of business profits, 1300 The pulp and paper industry, 1302 Flour, price of, 1069 Horses, purchases of pure bred, 2279 Military service, 3035
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McCurdy, Mr. F. B. (Parliamentary Secretary, Department of Militia and Defence)
Army camps, sale of liquor in, 833 Military Service Bill, 2890 Parliamentary secretaryships, 4210, 4450 War-time Elections Bill, 6085	<
McCutcheon, Stanley, dismissal of, 306 McGee, the late Thos D'Arcy, monument to 3899
Mcl nnis, Mi-. M. A., assistant to Fuel Controller, 5422
McKee, A. J., steamer, 669, 4925, 4939 McKenzie, Mr. Daniel D. (North Cape Breton)
Address in reply to the Governor General's Speech, 78, 83
The attitude of Nova Scotia, 79 Mal-administration of the present Government, 81, 89
Canada's duty in regard to the war, 80 Militia Department affairs and the late Minister, 82
Loyal Orange Order, 85 Political patronage in recruiting, 86 Voting of soldiers, 87 Representation of Cape Breton in the Senate, 89 Army
Camps, sale of liquor in, 826, 1567 Enlistment of Canadians in British Army, 385
Forestry battalions, 4509 Recruiting, 86
Soldiers' votes, 87, 4729, 4759 Baddeck mail contract, 1819 Bell, Mr. Alexander Graham, 5783 Budget, 1809
Record of the present Administration, 1090
Political patronage, 1092 Purchase of horses in Nova Scotia, 1093 Development and progress under late Administration, 1094
Canadian Northern Railway, acquisition of, 4039, 4521, 5032, 5162 Civil Service, promotions, 4667 Coal, 2005
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Criminal Code amendment, jurors, 4305, 4330 Cu stoms
Duties payable on Crown's goods, 2130 Officials, 5100 Preventive service, 1882 Dry docks, 4463 Fish and fisheries Officers, 2170
Development of industry, 2045 Fisher, Mr. Ward, 2170 Flags on public buildings, 4147 Flour, 1879
High price of, 1076 Fuel. 1418
Control of, 2317
Government Railways Act amendment, 4375
Grain for breweries and distilleries, 1178 Highland Brigade, 552 House of Commons-messengers, 6053 Imperial Munitions Board clerks, 305 Imperial War Conference, 1565 Indians, 1893
Sydney reserve, 3664 Inland Revenue Department Estimates, 2379, 3840 Expenditure, 2379, 2388 Officials, 3840 Insurance, 2102, 4393 Intercolonial Railway Boisdale contracts, 4415 Claims, 3416 Operation of, 784 Rates on coal, 4292
Stations at North Sydney, McKinnon's Harbour and Christmas Island, 2227 Sydney train service, 2222 Jamesville breakwater, 5328 Judges' salaries, 1976 Labour, 1174, 1988
Conditions on munition work, 2493 Letter carriers, salaries of, 583 Little Bras d'Or dredging, 3886 Magdalen Islands cable service, 5407 Mail contracts, 3637 Margaree harbour improvements, 5336 Matheson post office, 3502 Military service Appeals, 3185 Burden of proof, 3322 Classes, 3289
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Report of, 4291 Sittings of, 2322, 2357
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McMillan, Mr. John A. (Glengarry)
Cheese purchases by British Government, 1774
Dairying industry, 2256 McNab, Colin C., proposed allowance to, 578 McNeil, F. C., payments to, 1380 McNeil, Lt. John D., promotion of, 5272 McQueen, Lieut. W. A., employment of, 4508 McSpadden, Lt.-Col., position of, 2618 McWilliams, Mr., dismissal of, 2165 Magdalen Islands, cable service, 5407 Magladery, Mr. Thomas, M.L.A., position and pay of, 4685 Mails. See Post office Manitoba, County Court judges, 5083 Maple sugar. See Food products Marcil, Hon. Charles (Bonaventure)
Address in reply to the Governor General's Speech, 109, 119 Canada and the war, 109, 119 The Nationalist party, 109, 120 The Dorchester election, 111, 120 Recruiting in Quebec, 112, 119, 127 Quebec, past and present. 123 National service, 126 The high cost of living, 129 Army, Fifth Canadian Division, 459 BOland, Hon, Dr., M.Pr, 311, 341 Bonaventure Breakwater, 988 County, mail service, 1126 Recruiting officer, 1675 Campbellton-Gaspe steamship service, 1126, 1228, 1959
Carleton Beach protection works, 1126 Civil Service, salaries, 2238 Court, Private Harry Ivan, 3295 Cross Point wharf, 988, 1228, 1571 Customs Department, dismissals from, 1844 Dagneau, John F., 1471 Daylight saving, 36S 5 Dorchester county election, 111, 120 Klaine, steamer, 1379 Gascons wharf, 2055 Gaspe steamship services, 2325 Government Railways Act amendment, 4343 Hopetown post office, 989, 1474 Interprovincial bridges, 3891 Intoxicating liquors, 2008 Le Blanc, Maurice, 1816
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Militia Department, employees, 312 Montreal, customs eollectorship, 311 Nationalist party, 109, 120 New Carlisle, war expenditure in, 1575 New Richmond post office, 898 Overseas Military Forces, Minister of, 4209 Packages, marking of,-inspection and sale, 4067, 4070 Paspebiac wharf, 898, 988 Paspebiac-Hopetown mail service, 1126 Pratt Bros., payments to, 1570 Prisoners of war, exchange of, 341 Quebec and Oriental railway, 1674 Quebec, recruiting in, 112, 127, 213, 342, 2428 Railway Act, The, 3513 Read, Lance Corporal, 717 Renault, Raoul, appointment of, 2375 Restigouehe river, bridging of, 988 Ross rifle, 422
Ruisseau le Blanc breakwater, 898 St. Charles de Caplan wharf, 898 Separation allowances, 386 Shigawake post office, 898 Shlgawake East post office, 988 Shipbuilding, 1921, 1930 Soldier Settlement Board. 3626, 3789 Taxation, income, 4102, 4123, 4130 United States troops, training of in Canada, 2482
War-time Elections Bill, 5641, 5717, 5813 Wharves, 1944	*
M arcile, Mr. Joseph E. (Bagot)
Budget, 1292 .
Trade and financial conditions, 1293 The French-Canadian people, 1294 Recruiting, 1294 Transcontinental railway, 1295 Government appointments and dismissals, 1296
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Postmaster, 523, 5S1 Post office sub-station, 596 Public building, 305
Montreal Trades and Labour Council, 2198 Monuments, erection of, 3S96, 3899 Moore, Major Rev. A. H., 1265
Moosejaw
Enlistments, 5122
Moosejaw News patronage, 2708 Morphy, Mr. H. B. (North Perth)
Army
Soldiers, voting of, 4701, 4756, 4786, 4815, 4900
Cheese manufacture, regulations, 2265 Civil Service salaries, 2013 Companies, incorporation of, 5941 Criminal Code amendments, jurors, 4299, 4324
Gordon Divorce Bill, 5906 Insurance, 5196
Live Stock and Produce Bill, 4290, 5505, 5513
Military service
Classes, 3142, 3284, 3291 Exemptions, 3193, 3364 Persons liable for service, 3118 National Gallery of Canada, 5301 Pensions, 6010
Telegraph and telephone lines, 5378
M orris, Mr. James (Chateauguay)
Budget, 973
Nationalist party, 974 Free wheat, 975
The record of the Government, 975 Military Service, 2978 Newspaper article, correction of, 1775 Woman suffrage, 1523 Morton, Dr. A., position of, 5706, 5913
Mounted Police
See Royal Northwest
Mount Royal Tunnel and Terminal, 4835 IVL*xom, Major, position of, 4415 Muchaboom wharf, 304 Murphy, Hon. Charles (Russell)
Address in reply to the Governor General's Speech, 225
Proposed committee of inquiry, 225 Charges by ex-Minister of Militia, 226 Army medical service, 227 The Ross rifle, 228 Armstrong, S. A., 802
Murphy, Hon. C.-Con.
Army
Medical service, 227, 3978 Overseas forces, proposed holiday for, 5902
Rejected men, 3100 Soldiers, voting of, 4760, 4812, 4890 Baugh, Edward Levi, 1470, 2481 Canada Gazette, publication of, 3738 Canadian Northern railway acquisition of, 4593-4608, 4637, 4972
Cheese purchases by British Government, 1863, 2197
Civil Service appointments, 643, 648, 2021, 2238
Linder Order in Council of Jan. 1, 1917, 3003
Promotions, 4666
Firearms in Quebec hardware stores, 5083 Flour, alleged profit on, 5085 Georgian Bay Canal Commission, 3901 Hospital on Parliament Hill, 1228 Inland Revenue Department, estimates, 2388
Latchford, Ont., plant and buildings, sale of, 5706
Lessard, General, 365 Marlowe, Lt.-Col. F. W., 1227 McLeod-Tellier Commission, 5251 McSpadden, Lt.-Col., 2618 Military Service, 2538 Enforcement, 2545 Labour, attitude of, 2543 Quebec, attitude of, 2543 Senate amendments, 4665 Montreal
Post office sub-station, 596 Public building, 305 Monuments, erection of, 3900 Ottawa, government land in, 1130 Parliament buildings Brick for, 337
Contract for construction of, 454 Stone for, 304
Parliamentary secretaryships, 4213 Public Works Department architect, 5104 Recruiting of British subjects in United States, 2482
Rideau canal, lighting of, 1939 Ross rifle, 228, . 421
Substitute for, 1012, 1594 Valuation of factory, 1265 Taxation, income, 4131, 4649 War supplies, clothing, 3556 War-time Elections Bill, 5618, 5656, 5669, 5732, 5764
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National Organization for War, pamphlet,
National Service, 71, 93, 126, 170, 191 Cards, 2479
Distribution and return of, 361, 667, 713, 1376
Effect of on recruiting, 361, 374 Commission, 64, 200 Employes of military age, 4787 Expenditure, 3676 Officials, 309, 376, 3676 Purpose of, 370, 2413 Statement by the Director General, 6086 National Trust Company, 4417, 4685 National Transcontinental Railway. See Canadian Government railways Nationalist party, 109, 120, 143, 179, 1224 Statement by Prime Minister, 4564 Naturalization Acts, administration of, 3T41
Naval Service
Department
Estimates, staff and salaries, 660, 4157 Statement by the Minister, 4157 Grilse, H.M.C.S., command of, 4563 H.M.C.S. Niobe and Rainbow, 4162 Life saving, 661
Master mariners at Halifax, 4416 Officers at Halifax, 6000 Patrol service, 4163, 4164, 4170, 5243, 5274 Recruiting for British Admiralty, 4159 Transport service, 4161 Wilfrid C., vessel, 4062 See Air Service Niobe
See Naval Service Neely, Mr. D. B, (Humboldt)
Mclnnes, M. A., 5422 Military Service Bill, 2778 Sifton, Sir Clifford, statement of, reply to, 5774
Tariff revision, 1730 Taxation, farm implements, 1730 War-time Elections Bill, 5587, 5643-5652, 5724, 5821
White, Rev. W'ard, 3903
Neely, Captain D. B., M.P., position and pay of, 6066
Neilly, Dr., military position of, 2707 Nesbitt, Mr. Edward W. (North Oxford) Address in reply to the Governor General's Speech, 94
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Medical service, 542 Soldiers
Pay, 3216, 5223 Voting, 4705, 4769, 5196 Bran, prices of, 4466 Brantford moulders' strike, 2322 Canadian Northern railway, acquisition of, 4501, 4609, 4632, 513T Cattle, British embargo on, 920 Cheese purchases, 2197, 2258 Cold storage, 2255
Criminal Code Amendment, proposed, 1677 Daylight saving, 3684 Farm labour, 3510
Government Railway Act amendment, 4346 Grain for breweries and distilleries, 1179 Insurance, 3850, 5200 Live stock exchanges, 4289, 5503 Loans, public, 347 Military Service Classes, 3143
Exemptions, 3211, 3216, 3272 Quebec situation, 2594 Voluntary enlistment, 2592 O'Connor, Mr. W. F., report of, 3747 Overseas Military Forces, Minister of, 4208 Penitentiaries, 6036 Pensions, 6016 Political patronage, 97 Potatoes, 1437 Quebec railways, 5463 Railway Act, The, 3520, 3530 St. John harbour works, 5895 Scientific and industrial research, 3911 Taxation
Business profits, 1436, 1445, 1654 Wealth, 2597
Telegraph and telephones lines, 5400 Tractor engines, duty on, 677 United Grain Growers, Limited, 895 War charities, 5481 War expenditure, 541
New Brunswick Public Works. See Public Works
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Nicholson, Mr. Donald (Queen's, P.E.I.) Address In reply to the Governor General's Speech, 238
Canada under Conservative rule, 238 ' Enlistments from Prince Edward Island, 241
Prosperity of Canada, 241, 243 Shipbuilding, 242 The French-Canadian people, 243 Military Service, 3001 Nickerson, W. H., dismissal of, 1472 Nickerson, William C., employment of, 2233 Nickle, Mr. W. F. (Kingston)
Army
Camps, sale of liquor in, 833 Forestry battalions, 3951 Pensions, 1615
Canadian Northern railway acquisition of, 4587	w
Civil Service salaries, 2250 Industrial and scientific research, 5234 Military Hospitals Commission, 473 Military Service Classes, 3290 Exemptions, 3203
Packages, marking of-inspection and sale, 4066
Penitentiaries, officials, 6037 Pensions, 6011, 6033 Quebec railways, 5462 Railway Act, The, 3532, 3540, 3604, 3803 Royal Military College, 5310 Senate, proposed change in constitution of, 1141
Separation allowances, 382 Soldiers, returned, care of, 472 Taxation, income, 4074, 4107 Toronto, Hamilton and Buffalo railway, 2611
War charities, 5488 War-time Elections Bill, 5753, 5837 Nixon, Mr. A. W., military position of, 6067 Non-support
See Criminal Code Amendment Bills North Battleford, government employees, 453 Northrup, Mr. W. B. (East Hastings)
Gordon Divorce Bill, 5497, 5904 Grain for breweries and distilleries, 1184 Parliamentary sessions, expense of, 1261, 2524
Racing meets, limitation of, 321 North Sydney customs service, 607, 1852 Northwest Game Bill, The. lr., 2569.	2r.,
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Canada Year Book, 2337 Canadian Government railways, rolling stock, 4930
Canadian Northern railway, acquisition of, 4304, 4505, 4610-4619, 5180 Capital punishment, 630 Cloakey, George, 1819
Coal, western mining of, 2200, 2238, 2525, 2653, 2776 Cold storage, 2259
Conscription, statement in L'Evenement, 434
Customs Tariff Act, proposed amendment, 1685, 1689, 1727, 1776 Dominion Lands officials, 1675 Dominion Lands Act amendment, 3793-3812 Drake, steamer, 4245 Edmonton railway bridge, 3892 Edson, town of, 1816 Elevators See, under this title, Grain Experimental stations, 2065 Fiddlers, the. See, under this title, " The Fiddlers"
Fisheries, Lac la Biche, 2158 Flour, 5209, 5212
Sales between Canada and United States, 5273
Free food, proposed amendment, 1686 Food control, 2081 Freight rates, 3715 Game in the Northwest, 3665 Government employees, political activity of, 2349 Grain
Board of Supervisors, 3697 Elevators, 2334
Transportation of, 1681, 3396, 3412, 3712 Wheat
Export, prohibition of, 3882 Prices and control, 3690, 4512, 4661, 4687, 4887, 5209, 6000 Grande Prairie immigration hall, 1575 Grey, Ambrose, 1818 Homestead regulations, 1747 Homesteaders, names of, 1819 House of Commons Estimates, 2359
Sessional indemnity of Members, 6047 Howe, Lt. M. J., 6066 Hudson Bay railway, 5092 Immigration, 1764, 2140, 2148 United States, from, 1747 Indians
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Exchanges, 5508 Improvement of, 2278, 2281 Mail service, 3638 Merritt, Col.-Aviation Fund, 5362 Military service
Authority of Parliament, 2419 Available men, 3371 Burden of proof, 3322 Classes, 3358
Contraventions of Act, 3328, 3351, 3360, 3579
Enforcement, 2416
Exemptions, 3195, 3227, 3234, 3311, 3364 General provisions, 2411, 3238 Mounted Police, Royal Northwest, 301, 335, 4674
National service, 71, 361, 370, 374, 2413 National Transcontinental railway, 2209, 2218
North Battleford government employees 453
O'Connor, Mr. W. F., report of, 3938 Oil bounties, 2329
Parliament, extension of term of, 3496 Patriotic Fund, 3079 Penitentiaries-officials' salaries, 6043 Pensions, 6005-6033 Poplar trees, conservation of, 3742 Public buildings Construction, 4181 Rentals, 4149, 5097 Repairs, 5106, 5304 Telephone service, 4147 Quebec and Saguenay railway, 1575 Railway material, removal of to France, 301, 310, 1473-1474, 1615, 1628, 1820, 3407-3408, 3398, 5293 Railways
Expenditure on, 2233 Operation of, 3412 Transportation of coal by, 3395 Recruiting. See, under this title, Army Rogers, Lt.-Col. Maynard, 1818 Ross rifle, 427, 432, 478, 510 Shore, George, suspension of sentence on, 1373
Soldier Settlement Board, 2780, 3625 Tariff revision, 1776 Taxation, 1677 Income, 4644
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3654, 3881, 5942. 5944 War
Charities, 3489
Government, administration of, 3371 Munitions contracts, 5532 War-time Elections Bill, 5553, 5638-5702, 5816
Ways and Means-amendment to motion for second reading of resolutions, 1677 Y ukon
Judges' salaries, 5897 Miners' strike, 3086
Prices and cost of living, 2199, 2237, 2481, 2525, 2945
Orangemen. See Loyal Orange Order Ottawa
Government land in, 1130 Rents paid by the Government in, 4149, 5097 Outlook Publishing Company, payments to, 607
Overseas Minister of Munitions. See War Overseas Forces, Minister of the, 5
Non-combatant employees of Department, 4786
See Minister of the Overseas Forces, etc., Bill
Overseas forces. See Army.
Pacaud, Mr. Lucien T. (Megantic)
Military Service Bill, 2916 Thetford mines labour trouble, 1113 Pacific Dredging Company, 1126 Packages, marking of. See Inspection and Sale Act Amendment Bill Palmerston post office building, 1127 Papineau, Mr. Louis J. (Beauharnois) Lefebvre, Major Alfred, 1037, 2618, 2003 Military service, 2997 Paquet, Mr. Eugene (LYslet)
Budget, 1297
Union and solidarity of the Canadian people, 1297
The financial position of Canada, 1298 Munitions manufacture, 1299 Development of agriculture, 1300 Food products, imports and exports of, 1573 Immigration, 803 Military service, 2789 Public health, 992
Repatriation of Canadians, 803	<
Pardee, Mr. Frederick F. (West Lambton) Army
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Pelagie Sealing Treaty, claims under, 5958 Penitentaries
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Meat supplies for, 337 Guards, salaries, of, 5803 Kelly, Thomas, treatment of, 1813 See Kelli?
Officials, salaries of, 5898, 6033
Portsmouth, 3418
Prisoners
Enlistment of, proposed, 1012, 1814 Labour of, 6036, 6040 Release of, for work on farms, 803 Report of inspector, 3419 Pennsylvania coal, embargo on, 2199 Penny Bank Act Amendment Bill, lr., 1773.
2r., Com., 3r., 2059 Pensions
Military, 1594
Amount required for, 5899 Board of Commissioners and staff, 608, 4176, 4958
Canadian in Imperial forces, for, 4662, 4688
Dependents of soldiers, 4051 Erroneous announcement denied, 5423 European war, 6005 Militiamen, 6004
Patriotic Fund, agents in applications, 382
Proposed bill, 845
Inquiry concerning, 4293 Revision of scale, 5424 Naval, pilots, 6049
Royal Northwest Mounted Police, 5704 Perley, Sir George Halsey Appointment as Minister of the Overseas Forces, 5
Petroleum. See Oil Pictou (County)
Rural mail routes, 900 Pictou (Town)
Contractors for war supplies at, 303 Freight, handling of, at, 303 Marine and Fisheries agency, 304, 596, 1936 Plaxton, Mr. Charles P., position of, 4416 Point Tupper mail service, 3502 Political deadlock, rumoured, 1971 Political meetings, attendance of soldiers at, 4338
Political patronage, 203, 205, 287, 726 Recruiting, in, 86, 97, 154, 162 Pollution of streams, 454 Pommeroy, Mr. Samuel, position of, 4952
Poplar trees, utilization of, 3742 Port Hood wharf, 5336 Port Malcolm wharf, 3866 Post Office
Country postmasters, salaries of, 3634, 3642 Department
Estimates, 660, 2352, 2360, 3633, 5898, 6051
Staff and salaries, 660, 3633, 5898, 6051 Letter carriers, salaries of, 580, 1474, 1805, 2244
Mail carriers, 2243-4, 2708 Mail clerks, French-speaking, 5272 Mail contracts, 3635 Mail matter for soldiers, 3644 Mails, misuse of, 893, 1027 Parcel post, 2072, 3634, 3639 Prisoners of war, to, 3958 Postal clerks salaries, of, 2708, 3639 Railway mail service, 2244, 3650, 4102, 6051 Registration of mail matter, 668 Rural mail service, 3634, 5898 Carriers, 2247, 3634, 3636, 3643 Routes, number of, 2247 Signs, printing of, in French and English, 5999
Potatoes. See Agriculture and Food pro
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Power, Mr. William (Quebec, West) Military Service, 2805
Pratt Brothers, payments to, 1570
Press censorship, 3503, 3654, 3718, 3881, 3995,
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Prices, fixing of. See Criminal Code Amendment Bills, Food and Cold storage
Prince Edward Island
Car ferry, 2205, 2304
See also Steamship services Enlistments from, 241, 4563 Freight, handling of, 1037 Military organization, 5422 Payments to under Agricultural Instruction Act, 455
Public works. See that title.
Steamship service, 660, 3389
Prince Edward Island Railway. See Canadian Government railways
Prince Rupert, shipbuilding at, 4787 Princess Louise Fusiliers, 5271 Printing, Government, 3737 Prison Labour, utilization of, 6036, 6040 Prisoners. See Penitentaries and War
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Cascade Scenic Railway Company, 4365 Gordon Divorce Bill, 5496, 5541, 5902 Grain Growers Grain Co., Ltd., 1110 Grand Trunk Pacific Branch Lines Company, 1373
Imperial Order Daughters of the Empire and the Children of the Empire (Junior Branch), 5495 Mount Royal Tunnel and Terminal Co., 1110
Toronto, Hamilton and Buffalo railway, 2590, 2609, 3865, 3955, 3980 United Grain Growers Limited, 893 Privilege, questions of Barrette, Mr.-statement in Halifax Chronicle, 3352
Blondin, Hon. P. E.-statement in Ottawa Evening Journal, 339
Boulay, Mr.-statement in Ottawa Citizen, 2776
Bureau, Mr.-statements in Montreal Gazette, 2709, 4730
Burnham, Mr.-correction of remarks in Hansard, 869
Clark, Mr. Michael-statements in the press, 3617
Descarries, Mr.-vote on Military Service Bill, 3846
Graham, Mr.-statement of Mr. R. B. Bennett, 804, 869
Hazen, Mr.-statement by Mr. Pugsley, 5274
Hughes, Sir Sam
Statement of Mr. Mark Irish, 2707 Statement of Mr. A. K. Maclean, 2777 Statement of Mr. Currie, 5773 Knowles, Mr.-statement in Toronto Telegram, 5085
Lafortune,	Mr.-Ottawa Journal-Press,
Laurier, Sir Wilfrid-statement of Sir Clifford Sifton, 4009
MacNutt, Mr.-Ottawa Journal-Press, 3656 Mondou, Mr.-statement in Montreal Gazette, 3004
Neely, Mr.-statement by Sir Clifford Sifton, 5774
Oliver, Hon. Frank-statement in L'Evene-ment, 434
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Sinclair, Mr.-statements in Ottawa Journal, 4927
Taylor, Mr. J. D.-remarks of Mr. Thomson, 1370
White, Sir Thomas-Toronto Globe editorial, 2707
W'ilcox, Mr.-statement in Toronto Globe, 47
Prohibition or Restriction of the Sale and use of Intoxicating Liquors Act Amendment Bill, lr., 4192.	2r., com., 4395.
3r., 4405. See also Intoxicating liquors, Canada Temperance Act and Provincial prohibitory legislation _
Proportional representation, 902 Proulx, Mr. Edmond (Prescott)
Boyce, George H., 1472
Canadian Association of Returned Soldiers, 4951
Canadian Northern railway, acquisition of. 5075
Cox, John, 1472
Criminal Code amendments, jurors, 4305 Customs Department, motor car for, 1476 Dillon, Major G. P., 1958 Georgian Bay Canal Commission, 5913 Gibson, Lieut. Wm., 5422 Grain for breweries and distilleries, 1179 Grilse, steamer, 4563 Hants county apple inspectors, 1380 Harris, Capt. R. V., 5422 Hughes, Brig.-Gen. W. S., 5361 Interprovincial bridges, 3890 Jaffiay, Mr. J. P., 4062 Knight, Mr. N. H. R., 4952 Laurentian, steamer, 4563 Macpherson, Capt. Kenneth C., 4292, 4416, 4685
Magladery, Mr. Thomas, 4685 Military service, 3056 Exceptions, 3563 Exemptions, 3189, 3192, 3366 Militia Department automobiles, 3903 National Organization for War, 4685 Nixon, Mr. A. W., 6067
Overseas Military Forces, Minister of, 4431, 4449
Pensions, 6005 Quebec railways, 5474 Salter, R. J., 1472
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Steamer C. E. Tanner, 5362
Taylor, Lt.-Col. J. D. M.P., 986
Tiemain, Lieut.-Col. H. B„ M.P., 608, 1472
War supplies-hay, 338
War-time Elections Bill, 5623, 5669, 5829
Webb, Lieutenant, 4563
Wood, Lieutenant, 4563
Provincial governments, duties payable by, 2119, 2129
Provincial prohibitory legislation. Bill in aid of, lr., 4192; 2r. and Com., 4395; 3r.,
' 4405; Senate amendments, 5514 See also Intoxicating liquors, Prohibition and Canada Temperance Act
Public health, proposed department of, 992
Public Service Committee, reeomnSendations of, 3633
Public Service Loan Bill. Res., 242. lr., 353.
2r„ 435. Com., 435.	3r., 476
Public Works
Buildings
Alberta, 5312
British Columbia, 1126, 5312 Generally, 4147, 5314 Manitoba, 5311
Nova Scotia, 4145	.
Ontario, 4146, 5309, 5412. See Ottawa Quebec, 1935, 4145, 5309 Saskatchewan, 4146, 5312 Department
Automobile, purchase of, 2480 Estimates, 652, 1935, 3867, 3882, 4145, 4181, 5096, 5304, 5314, 5362 Staff and salaries, 3893, 5104 Dredging
British Columbia, 5359 Dredge Cape Breton, loss of, 596, 668, 1024, 3881 Dredge No. 6, 5404 Generally, 5096
Manitoba, Saskatchewan and Alberta, 3887
Maritime Provinces, 5359 Ontario and Quebec, 3886, 5359 See, under this title, Harbours and Rivers Dry docks. See Dry Docks Subsidies Act Amendment Bill Expenditure 1916-17, 1038 Harbours and Rivers
British Columbia, 3885, 5304, 5357 Manitoba, 5356
New Brunswick, 3872, 4185, 5347, 5411, 5890
Nova Scotia, 3866, 5314
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Publication Committee, 5791
Pugsley, Hon. William (St. John City)
Address in reply to the Governor General's Speech, 286
The political situation, 286 Returned soldiers and political patronage, 287
Administration of military affairs under late Minister of Militia, 287 Utilization of our natural resources, 291 Shipbuilding, 292 The Dorchester campaign, 293 Canada's naval policies, 293 Extension of term of Parliament, 293 Imperial War Conference, 294 Army
Desertions, 3111 Discharges, purchase of, 3112 Enlistments, 2647 Soldiers
Returned, employment of, 3846, 6057 Voting of, 2651, 4689-4736, 4740-4786, 4808-4834, 4874-4887, 4889-4914 165th Regiment, 1725 Bathurst harbour improvements, 3872 Budget, 863, 870
Trade conditions, 863 Free wheat, 864, 870 The Minister of Inland Revenue, 879 Amendment of Mr. Turriff, 881 Canadian Government railways Branch lines, 2228, 2232 Cars for, 4928
Employees, promotion of, 762 Intercolonial railway
Coal, freight rates on, 3511 Maritime Express service, 8 Passenger service, 2207 Canadian Northern railway, acquisition of, 4230, 4248, 4486, 4837, 4990-5015, 5108 Capital punishment, 631
Civil servants, enlisted-pay and separation allowances, 664, 2252 Civil Service
Officials, proposed dismissal of, 3633 Salaries, 1791, 2012
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Customs, duties payable by provincial governments, 2121, 2133 Daylight saving, 2945
Divorced persons, re-marriage of, 46, 1383, 1524
Dominion Lands Act Amendment, 3796 Dredging, 5096 Drill halls, control of, 4146 Dry docks, 4455, 5772, 5888, 5917 Fish and fisheries Licenses, 2150 Lobsters, 4171 Sardine fisheries, 4168 Flint, Dr., retirement of, 6044 Food control, 2091 Free wheat, 864, 870 Fuel, 1421
Game in the Northwest, 3670 Grosse Isle quarantine station, 5306 Hansard, correction of statement in, 6067 Members' sessional indemnity, 8048 Morning sittings, 2619 Stenographers, 5788 Hudson Bay railway, 5086 Immigration, 2141, 2146 Imperial Munitions Board, imports, 1978 Imperial War Conference, visit of Prime Minister to, 1551 Indian lands, 1908 Insurance, 3849, 3864, 4138, 5198 Landry, Mr. Justice, findings of, 3109, 3609, 5265
See under this title, McLeod-Tellier Lighthouse keepers' salaries, 6049 Live stock exchanges, 5504 Loans to farmers, 1962 Loans, public ($100,000,000), 342 Mail contracts, 3635 McLeod-Tellier Commission, 5245, 5265 See under this title, Landry, Mr. Justice Military Service, 2642, 3254 Appeals, 3175, 3181 Classes, 3144, 3287 Definitions, 3111 Enforcement, 2651 Enlistments, voluntary, 2647 Exemptions, 3209, 3213


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National Service Commission, remuneration to officials of, 309, 457 Newspaper reports, correction of, 5273 Order of the day, reinstatement of, 2877 Ottawa public buildings Rents paid by Government, 4149, 5097 Telephone service, 4147 Overseas Military Forces, Minister of, 4446 Packages, marking of-inspection and sale,-4065 Parcel post, 2072
Parliament, extension of term of, 3468, 3475 Parliamentary secretaryships, 4452 Peace proposals, 300 Potatoes, removal of duty on, 703 Provincial legislators, free transportation for, 684
Public Works Department
Estimates and expenditure, 3871, 5414, 5306, 5413	9
Quebec, railways, operating expenses of, 5452
Railway Act, The, 606 Railways, material for use in France, 1826 St. John harbour improvements, 3875, 5349, 5413
Shipbuilding, 665, 703, 1371, 1551, 1775, 19121928, 2293, 5432-5452 Soldier Settlement Board, 3618 Steamship services, 2292 Supply, voting one-sixth for 1917-18, 2946 Supreme Court, allowances to Chief Justice, 6050 Taxation
Business profits, 1636 Income, 4089 Wealth, 3471, 3475
Telegraph and telephone service, 5364, 5401 Toronto, Hamilton and Buffalo railway, 2616
Toronto News, statement of, 4959 Vancouver harbour improvement, 5304 Volunteers to operate trains in France, position of, 5123 War charities, 5482 War supplies Munitions, 5527 Ross Rifle, 501
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Pugsley, Lieut. J. A., position of, 4895 Pulp and paper
Newsprint, fixing of price of, 1302 Quarantine service, 3756 Quebec (City)
Firearms in hardware stores, 5083 Harbour master, 897 Immigration agents, 5122 Quebec (Province)
Bridges, 3889 Electoral lists, 6002 Judges' salaries, 5798 Military districts Nos. 3 and 10, 455 Public Works. See that title Recruiting in, 94, 112, 119, 127, 147, 160, 185, 213, 221, 342, 363, 2398, 2424, 2515 Officers, recruiting of, 3135 See Military Service Bill and French Canadian
Quebec Montmorency and Charlevoix Railway, completion and operation of. 4948, 5452
Quebec and Oriental railway, 1674 Quebec and Saguenay railway Bondholders, 669
Completion and operation of, 303, 668, 1575, 4948, 5452 Expenditure, 1658
Legislation concerning, proposed, 458 Quebec Harbour Advances Bill. Res., 435.
lr„ 438. 2r„ 577. Com., 577.	3r., 578
Quebec Harbour Commission, 436 Racing Form, The, exclusion from mails of, 306, 336, 896
Racing meets, limitation of. See Criminal Code Amendment Bills Radiotelegraph service. See Telegraphs, also Ocean Telegraph Act Railway Act Amendment Bills
1.	Bill No. 13, Mr. Cochrane, general, lr.,
194; 2r., 602; special committee, 602; motion to amend, stands, 605; com., 3420, 3511, 3592, 3716; 3r., 3740
2.	Bill No. 18, Mr. McCraney, free transportation for provincial legislators, lr., 300. 2r., 685. Ref. to Railway Com., 685 Railway Commission, 1862, 3407 Railway mail clerks. See Post office Rai Iways
Alleged advance to Company, 2100 Bridges, 3889
Railways-Con.
Cattle getting on tracks, 3549 Coal
Confiscation of, by, 584 Handling of, by, 3395, 3402 Constables, 3599
Employees, payment of salaries of, 5956 Expenditure on, 2233 Fires from locomotives, 3552, 3602 French language, printing of literature in, 3511
Material, removal of to France, 310, 335, 1229, 1266, 1372, 1473, 1474, 1615, 1628, 1690, 1820, 3407, 3409, 5293 Overdue trains, notice of, 3594 Situation, 2219, 2221, 4011, 4058, 4217, 4247, 4467, 4512, 4566, 4622, 4835 Cost of inquiry into, 3408 Traffic, congestion of, 587
For Canadian Government railways, see that title
For individual railways, see their titles Railways and Canals Department
Estimates, staff and salaries, 2202, 3385, 3402, 4925, 4928, 5428 Steamers purchased by, 669 Rainbow, His Majesty's Canadian Ship, 457, 1472
See Naval Service
Rainville, Mr. Joseph H. (Deputy Speaker) Emigration to the United States, 3285 Military service Classes, 3285
Exemptions. 3189, 3194, 3218 Farmers, of, 6002 See Deputy Speaker
Ralston, Major J. L., position and pay of, 6067
Rankin, Captain Ramsay, position of, 987 Recruiting. See Army
For recruiting by localities, see names of localities
Reid, Hon. J. D. (Minister of Customs) Canadian Government railways Intercolonial, management of, 769 Passenger service, 2207 Promotion of employees, 769 Quebec, 4948, 5452, 5458 Civil Service appointments, 644, 1023 Coal, confiscation of by railways, 585 Customs '	*
Crown goods, duties payable on, 19781985, 2119
Departmental estimates, staff and salaries, 643, 1843, 1881, 5098, 5777 Disposal of unclaimed goods, 3743
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Assistants to Food Controller, 4244 Industrial and scientific research, 5284 Military service, 3041
Army Act regulations, 3113 Exemptions, 3224 Persons liable for service, 3126 Tribunals, 3170	,
Taxation
Income, 4652 Wealth, 3045
Unclaimed hank balances, 1001 War strpplies, horses, 453 War-time Elections Bill, 5677, 5687 William Davies Co., 4151 Ross rifle. See War supplies Rouville county mail carrier, 608 Roy, Judge L. R., payments to, 1130 Royal Assent, The, 603, 3766, 5084 Royal Astronomical Society of Canada, 5304 Royal Military College, 5310 Royal Mint, Ottawa branch, 1474 Royal Naval College, 4163 Royal Northwest Mounted Police Pensions, 5704
Salaries and contingencies, 4147 Saskatchewan and Alberta, duties in, 301, 335
Subsistence, etc., 4667 Ruisseau le Blanc breakwater, 898 Russell, Mr. T. A., purchase of motor trucks by, 266, 280 Salt. See Fish
Salter, R. J., payments to, 1472 Sand Point wharf, 5316
Sauve, Pte. James, application of for pension, 5776
Savings banks, deposits in, 4685 St. Charles de Caplan wharf, 898 St. Charles river dam, 2525 St. Jerome post office, 899
St. John and Quebec Railway Act Amendment Bill. lr„ 2433.	2r., Com., 3r.,
St. John harbour improvements, 3875, 4185, 5347, 5411, 5890
St. Lawrence Flour Mills Company, Government contracts with, 4509 Sainte Luce. Changing of name, 673 St. Maurice river improvements, 1381 St. Peter's canal, 3406
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Army, enlistment of unfit men, 4004 Canadian Northern railway, acquisition of, 5061
Cattle, British embargo on, 918 Civil Service, 2246 Daylight saving, 3683 Flour prices, 5214	[DOT]
Grain, rust in, 2067 Military service, exemptions, 3365 Ottawa public buildings, 4150 Public headth, 1001 Rural mail carriers, 2247 Taxation	.
Farm implements, 1713 Income, 4096
Schaffner, Mr. L. P., dismissal of, 438
School- lands, western, 1378
Scientific and Industrial research. See P^eseareh Council Bill Scotch Hill post office, 3649	.
Scout, motor boat, 5271
Scott, Mr. F. S. (South Waterloo)
Budget, 884
Canada and the war, 885 Free wheat, 885 Present prosperity, 886 Secretary of State, Department of the, estimates, 655, 3737, 5242
Security Life Insurance Company Bill, lr., 2479. 2r., 2592. Com., 3r., 2857 Seed grain, 302, 303, 305
See Grain	[DOT]
Seguin, Mr. Paul A. (L'Assomption) Enlistments, 1476, 1572 Military Service Bill, 2765 Senate
Appointments to, 924 Hansard, cost of, 1571 Proposed change in constitution of, 1131 Taxation measures, precedent in amendment denied, 5480, 5883 Sevigny, Hon. Albert (Minister of Inland Revenue)
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Railway Act, The, 3443, 3543, 3546, 3805 Telegraphs and telephones, 3543, 3546 Shaw, F. D., dismissal of, 1847 Sherbrooke exhibition grounds, 302 Shigawake post office, 898 Shigawake East post office, 988 Shipbuilding
British Government, for, 4164 Canadian-built ships, 591 Prince Rupert, at, 4787 Railway Department, for, 4939, 5429 See Marine
Shipping. See Marine and Transportation Shore, George, suspension of sentence on, 1373
Sinclair, Mr. John H. (Guysborough)
Address in reply to the Governor General's Speech, 150
The fiftieth anniversary of Confederation, 150
The winning of the war, 151 Canadian soldiers at the front, 152 Military record of the Government, 152 The Ross rifle, 154 Political patronage, 154 Commandeering of ships, 155 Small arms ammunition, 156 , Extension of term of Parliament, 157 [DOT] Army
Casualties, July, 1917, 4151 Enlistments, July, 1917, 4151 Medical service, 3969 Officers, surplus of, 3102 Recruiting, 2884
Soldiers, age of on enlisting, 4001 Canada Temperance Act, 5243 Canadian Government railways, ice for, 301 See, under this title, Intercolonial Canadian Northern railway, acquisition of. 4600, 4872, 5061
Civil servants, enlisted, pay and separation allowances to, 663 Civil Service, 649
Appointments under sec. 21, 607, 1023, 1351, 1937
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Development of industry, 2040 Exports, 454
Investigation of problems, 5288 Laws, violation of, 2389 Lobsters, packing of, 5427 Marketing, 2042 Salt, 1027, 2044, 2290 Telephone method, 2176 Transportation, 3392, 4933 Trawlers, 300 Food inspectors, 607
Government Railways Act amendment, 4371 Grain, seed, 4680
Guysborough public building, 5914
Heatherton mail contract, 1817
High cost of living, 707
Hudson Bay railway expenditure, 596
Immigration regulations, 312, 525
Inland Revenue Department officials, 758
Intercolonial railway
Appointment of officials, 658 Branch lines, 3386 Tracadie siding, 2618
Intoxicating liquors, prosecutions for sale of, 1575
Manitoba County Court judges,, 5083 Margaree harbour improvements, 5332 McCutcheon, Stanley, dismissal of, 306 Migratory birds, 3661 Military District No. 6, 5236 Military service Appeals, 3179 Classes, 3141 Referendum, 2881 Tribunals, 3157
Military Voters' Bill, 4694, 4726, 4728, 47584786
Navigation, training in, 1839 Nickerson, W. H., 1472 Nova Scotia judges, 6003 Ottawa Journal, statement in, 4927 Overseas Military Forces, Minister of, 4445 Parliament, extension of term of, 157 Pensions, 6030 Political patronage, 154 Pollution of sti earns, 454 Public Works Department estimates, 3868, 3874
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Returns, delay in bringing down o£, 1373 Ross rifle, 154, 425, 451 Rural mail service, 589S St. John harbour works, 5896 Salt for fish curing, 1027, 2290 Sand Point wharf, 5316 Savings banks deposits, 4685 Shipbuilding, 1671, 1923, 5434, 5452 Small arms ammunition, 156, 2480 Soldiers, returned, appointment of, 6059 Soldier's Cove wharf. 5337 Sonora preventive officers, 4244 Steam trawlers, 300 Steamship services, 2288, 2300 Steele, Arthur, dismissal of, 338 Submarine situation. 1328 Superannuation payments, 595 Technical education, 1247 Telegraph and telephone lines, 5371 Toronto water-borne traffic, 454 Tracadie Inland Revenue officer, 1817 "War-time Elections Bill, 5567, 6081 Welland canal, 3404 Wells, Clarence, 2480 White, N. W., payments to, 1038 Whitehead life saving station, 1469 Small Arms Ammunition. See War supplies Smith, Pte. J. I., discharge of, 3418 Smith, Mr. William (South Ontario)
Army, casualties, 2201 Cattle, British embargo on, 923 National Service cards, 2479 Railway Act, The, 3442 Smith's Falls postmaster, 1570 Soldiers. See Army Soldiers' Settlement Board Advances to soldiers, 4918 Commissioners, 4917
Soldier Settlement Board Bill. Res., 1157, 2653, 3618. lr„ 3630.	2r„ 3779.	3r.,
Sonora preventive officers, 4244 Sorel, strike at, 1912, 1935
South African War-Canadian contingent. 2200
Speaker (Hon. Edgar N. Rhodes), rulings and [DOT] statements of
Adjournment motions, when in order, 5517, 5547
Amendments ruled out not subsequently debatable, 1686 Bills
Not debatable in detail on motion for leave to introduce, 4410 Printing of in both languages, 5550
Speaker-Con.
Censored publications, quotations from in Parliament, 5944 Closure
Bill reported amended, amendments not debatable; Rule 17A overrides Rule 56, 5771
Concurrence in resolution of Committee of Supply not debatable, 5095 Crown property, Bills to dispose of, must have Crown's consent, for third reading, 1157
Flint, Dr., retirement of, 6044 House of Commons Estimates, 2359, 5784 Officials, 5786 Interjections, 2596 Irrelevancy, 444, 5478
Language reflecting on the Chair to be withdrawn, 2567
Letters from persons outside referring to House proceedings not to be quoted, 3956
Member must take his seat when Speaker addresses House, 4410 Motions dealing with questions already before House, 1017, 1022, 1150 Motions, irregular
Repetition of matters disposed of, 1867 Substantial repetition of notice of motion standing on order paper, 1490, 1508, 1523
Taxation, to levy, without recommendation by the Crown, 3078, 4648 Order of the day, reinstatement of, 2878, 2880
Orders of the Day, on, extended remarks irregular, 665, 804
Petitions, form for presentation of, 2284 Privilege, statements under to be confined to denial of matters complained of, 599, 3612, 3614, 3616 Questions and answers Answers not debatable, 4959 Questions not to contain allegation of fact or inuendo, 4834 Quorum, absence of, 2877 Reply, privilege of, confined to mover of substantive motion, 1880 Order of speakers varied by unanimous consent, 1015
Rules, lenient interpretation not to establish a precedent, 3078 Saturday sittings, Committee of Supply, how constituted (Rule 17C), 5891 Senate proceedings, regularity of not to be questioned in House, 5498
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"A man who was ashamed, Sir, of what he was doing," 5587 "Vile motives," 4313
Votes and Proceedings, error, not immediately discovered, referred to special committee, 2880 Ways and Means, amendment to second reading of resolution reported from Committee must be relevant, 1686 See also Deputy Speaker and Parliamentary procedure
Spence, Andrew, position of, 1472
Spittal, Lt.-Col. C. D., dismissal of, 645, 651, 1127
Spotten, Judge, 1127
Stanfield, Mr. John (Colchester)
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Camps, sale of liquor in, 823 Medical service, 3984
Government railways, promotion of employees, 765
Stayner public building, 5412
Steamers utilized by British Government,
the C. E. Tanner, 5362
Steamship services
Australia and New Zealand, 2285 Canada
British Columbia, 2299 Magdalen Islands, 2302, 2326 New Brunswick, 2292, 2297, 2323 Nova Scotia, 2286, 2299, 2300, 2304, 2319 Prince Edward Island, 2303, 2319, 3389, 3945
Quebec, 2299, 2318, 2325 China and Japan, 2298 France, 2307
Great Britain, 2285, 2291, 2297 Ireland, 2292 Newfoundland, 2286, 2291 South Africa, 2291 South America, 22S7 United States, 2299 West Indies, 22S7
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Army, soldiers, voting of, 1383, 4825 Canadian Association of Stationary Engineers, 1198 Cheese purchases, 2258 Coal, shortage of,. 83 Cold storage, 2079 Gordon Divorce Bill, 5496 Imperial Order Daughters of the Empire, 5495
Public health, proposed department of, 992 Railway Act, The, 3442, 3452 Scientific and industrial research, 3909
Stefansson expedition, 4173
Stellarton, N.S.
Postmaster, 669, 897, 3758 Public building, 4951
Stevens, Mr. H. H. (Vancouver)
Address in reply to the Governor General's Speech, 62
Our troops at the front, 62
Reply to criticisms of Mr. Macdonald, 62
The Ross rifle, 63	_
National Service Commission, 64 The smelting and refining of ores, 66 Care of returned soldiers, 67 Army, soldiers, voting of, 4749 Canadian Northern Railway acquisition of, 4965
Enlistment, 2421-2428 Fisheries, proposed ministry of, 2029 Grain for breweries and distilleries, 1182 Indians, Kitsilano Reserve, 1902 Military Service, 2421
Enlistment, interference with, 2421 Labour's attitude, 2426 Quebec's attitude, 2424, 2428 Referendum, 2427 National Service Commission, 64 Ross rifle, 63 Shipbuilding, 5445 Telephone lines, 5402 [DOT]Wealth, conscription of, 2427 Woman suffrage, 1522 Stewart, Mr. T. J. (West Hamilton)
Toronto, Hamilton and Buffalo railway, 2590, 2609, 3865, 3955, 3980 Tractor engines, duty on, 680 Submarine situation, 1320
Sulphur, United States embargo on export of, 4889
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1912-1956, 1989-2006, 2061-2099, 21492183, 2202-2235,	2255-2282, 2285-2320,
2323-2364, 2359-2388, 3385-3399, 34023417,	3633-3654,	3687-3716, 3737-3740,3740-3757, 3817-3844, 3866-3881, 38823902,	3949-3955,	3962-3979,	3980-4008,4044-4058, 4145-4150, 4157-4191, 46664684,	4914-4926,	4928-4951,	5098-5108,5205-5242, 5242- 5270, 5275-5314, 53145360,	5362-5415,	5428-5474,	5777-5805,
5890, 5892-5900, 5948, 5997, 6004-*6060 For details see titles of departments and subjects
Supreme Court Act and Exchequer Court Act amendment Bill, lr., 2568;	2r.,
Com., 3r., 3630
Surveys, 1345, 1357 Astronomical, 4917 Generally, 1345, 1357, 3898 Geological, 4179 Hydrographic, 4173 Indian Bands, 1894 International, 1735
Sutherland, Mr. Donald (South Oxford)
Army camps, sale of liquor in, 829 Coalition government, 2690 Flour, price of, 1080 Bive stock purchases, 2280 Military service, 2682 Classes, 3282
Quebec, recruiting in, 2685 Referendum, 2692 Railway Act, The, 3545, 3547 Railways, government operation of, 2234 Rural mail carriers, 3636 Soldier Settlement Board, 3786 Soldiers, behaviour of, 5234 (Soldiers, votes for, 1395 Telegraphs and telephones, 3545 War-time Elections Bill, 56S5, 5860 Women Suffrage, 1477 Swiss Army manoeuvres, attendance of Canadian officers at, 5219 Sydney
Harbour improvements, 5342 Industrial sites, 3956
Tanner, C. E., Steamer or Motor Boat, 5362 Tariff. See Customs and Customs Tariff Act Taxation. Senate amendment of taxation measure no precedent, 5476 Special
Business profits, 719, 727, 737, 745, 750, 959, 965, 1432, 1437, 1447, 1628, 2107 Comparative statement, 2508 Cost of collecting, 4686
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Hudson's Bay Co., lands, 986 Patent medicines, 363 Use made of funds obtained by, 4177 Wealth, 2453, 2469, 2508, 2528, 2576, 2587, 2597, 2608, 2671, 2728, 2S59, 3045 See Wealth, Conscription of Taylor, Mr. James D. (New Westminster) Army
Medical service, 3981 Non-commissioned officers, 1608, 3999 Officers, employment of, 565 Recruiting, 566 Soldiers
Pensions, 1607 Voting of, 4703, 4757-4786 Fraser river dredging, 5357 Hindu immigration, 2145 Military service, 3145, 3275 Thomson, Mr. Bevi, reply to statement of, 1370
Taylor, Bt.-Col. J. D., M.P., payments to, 986 Technical Education, 1229
See Industrial and Scientific Research. Telegraphs, telephones and radiotelegraphs
Government lines
Alberta and Saskatchewan, 3892, 5393 British Columbia, 3893, 5365, 5395, 5410 Manitoba, 5411 Magdalen Islands cable, 5407 New Brunswick, 5379 Nova Scotia, 5362 Prince Edward Island, 5407, 5411 Quebec, 5384 Telephones for, 4147 Ocean service, 2024, 2108 Provisions governing, 3542, 3546 Radiotelegraph service, 4159 Subsidies, 3892 West India cable, 2339 Temiscouata mail contract, 335
"The Fiddlers," circulation of forbidden, 3503, 3654, 3718, 3881, 3955, 4059, 5942
Thetford Mines, labour trouble at, 590, 606, 1113
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Game in the Northwest, 3668 Yukon, cost of living in, 2571 Thompson, Dr. Alfred, M.P., employment and salary of, 5083
Thomson, Mr. Levi (Qu'Appelle)
Army, soldiers' pay, 3216 Budget, 976
The duty on farm machinery, 977 Inequalities in the tariff, 979 Free wheat, 982
Canadian Northern railway, acquisition of, 5143
Dominion Lands Act amendment, 3811 Free wheat, 982 Military service, 2993 Exemptions, 3193, 3225 Railway transportation for Members of Parliament, 3521, 3523 Soldier Settlement Board, 3629 Thornton, Mr. Charles J. (Durham)
Packages, marking of,-inspection and sale,-4066
Railway Act, The, 3544 Telegraphs and telephones, 3544 Three Rivers
Harbour improvements, 3879 Public buildings, 66?
Titus, Private John, 2237
Tobin, Mr. Edmund W. (Richmond and Wolfe)
Bromptonville postmaster, 1129 Canadian Northern railway, acquisition of, 5052
Horses for war purposes, 1123 Military service, 2810 Militia Department motor cars, 2525 Ross rifle, 2054
Telegraph and telephone lines, 5388 Wool, exportation of, 1130 Toronto water-borne traffic, 454 Traoadie
Inland Revenue officer, 1817 Railway siding, 2618 Tractor engines, duty on, 674 Trade and Commerce
Agents and commissioners, 2326 Department of
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Publications, 5275 .
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Address in reply to the Governor General's Speech, 175
The fiftieth anniversary of Confederation, 175
Extension of term of Parliament, 175 National government, 177 Taxation of war profits, 178 The Nationalist party, 179 Recruiting in Quebec, 185 Enlistment of Canadians, 187 The manufacture of munitions, 188 Cost of the war to Canada, 189 Extension of term of Parliament, 189 Increased production, 190 National service, 191 Recruiting from the Civil Service, 192 The Ross rifle, 193 Aliens, naturalization of, 3814 Anderson, Mr. Daniel, 1265 Army
. Officers, surplus of, 3103 Rejected men, 3099 Ashcroft mail service, 668 Assistant Deputy Minister of Labour, suspension of, 687 Beans for seed, 1473 Blow, Dr., payments to, 668 Budget, 746
Trade relations with Great Britain, 746 Free wheat, 747, 750 Government expenditure, 747 Taxation of business profits, 750 Revenue of Canada, 755 Canadian Northern railway, acquisition of, 5026
Civil Service	[DOT]
Disfranchisement of Civil servants, proposed, 2020 Recruiting from, 192 Daylight saving, 3684 Dominion Lands Act amendment, 3798 Farm labour for western Canada, 3504 Flour, price of, 1070 Food Control, 1999, 3751 Fuel, 1414 Grain
Breweries and distilleries, for, USD
Commission, 1381
Elevators, 3707
Grading of, 1265
Rust in, 2063
Wheat
* Free, 747, 756 Surplus, purchase of, 1126 United States tariff on, 1342 Hobbs, Mr. Hugh, 1228 Loans to farmers, 1968 Lockhart, Mr. Hugh, 1265
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Army, soldiers, attendance of, at public meetings, 5231
Assistant Deputy Minister of Labour, suspension of, 686
Canadian Northern Railway acquisition of, 5066
Civil Service salaries, 2245 Cold storage, 2089 Food control, 1989, 2089 High cost of living, 710 v House of Commons, sessional indemnity of Members, 6047 Labour
Attitude of on Military service, 2795 Requirements, 2798 Military Sendee, 2795 Moore, Major Rev. A. H., 1265 Tariff revision, 1789 Taxation, income, 4103, 4121, 4130 Technical education, 1237 Thetford Mines labour trouble, 690, 606, 1120
War-time Elections Bill, 5741 Veterans
Army and Navy, Bill, 5421 Victoria bridge toll rates, 672 Victoria, B.C.
Breakwater, 1381 Victoria Sealing Company, 5958 Viviani, M., visit and address to Parliament of, 1318, 1361, 1362
Votes for soldiers. See Army, Soldiers Voters Lists
Provision for under War-time Elections Bill, 5418
Walsh, J. J., payments to, 1675 War
Charities. See Charities Bill Defence of Canada. See Militia and Defence
Expenditure, 274, 354, 386, 408, 476, 522, 525, 549; 718, 2936
See also War Appropriation Bill Loans, 720, 2774
Minister of Overseas Services, proposed, 277, 279
Pay and Records office, 1355 Prisoners of, 668
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See Taxation Supplies Boots, 4062 Clothing, 556, 3556 Davidson Commission, 249 Equipment, 40, 262 Hay, 338 Horses, 453, 1093 Machine guns, 590, 2201 Mattresses and covers, 6065 Methods of purchase, 232, 265 Motor trucks, 262^ 266, 280, 558 Munitions, 31, 36, 'l88, 4928, 5517, 5541 Rifles
Importations of, 1125	[DOT]
Ross, 63, 154, 193, 228, 235, 451, 2451, 3487
Correspondence brought down, 7 Factory, 663, 1265
In Committee (statement by Prime Minister), 388-434; resumed, 477522
Substitute for, 1012, 1594 Small arms ammunition, 156, 2480 Supplies
Patronage in purchase of, 4050, 4053 Pictou contractors for, 303 Trenton contractors for, 303 Transports, 1280 Transportation of, 33, 36 Trophies, exhibition of, 6003 Wagons, 556
See War Purchasing Commission
War Appropriation ($500,000,000) Bill. Res., 354, 386, 408, 476. lr., 522.	2r., 525.
Com., 525, 549. 3r., 585	.
War Charities Bill, lr., 5242.	2r.,	5424.
Com., 5424, 5481, 6062.	3r., 6065
See also p. 378
War Purchasing Commission, 32, 346
See War Supplies
War Revenue Act
Prosecutions under, 2379, 3835
See Inland Revenue Department, Estimates
War-time Elections Bill, lr., 5415.	2., 5550,
5565. Com., 5637, 5706.	3r., 5805, 5806
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Amendments proposed :	Sir Wilfrid
Laurier, 5576; lost on div., 5628. Mr. Pugsley, 5629; lost on div., 5635. Mr. Neely, 5650; lost, 5659. Mr. McCraney, 5659; lost on div., 5660. Mr. Lapointe, lost on div., 5770. Mr. Neely, 5824; lost on div., 5879 Senate amdts., 6071
War-time Elections Act
Female enumerators, 6071 Polling Divisions, 6070 Qualifications of voter, 6092 Tribunals, candidates for federal elections serving on, 6070
Washington Conference, Canadian delegates to, 1127
Waterford, N. S., explosion at, 5775
Ways and Means, Committee of, 584, 1436, 1445, 1628, 3760, 5242, 6061 Amendment, Mr. Oliver, 1677 Sqe Budget and Taxation
Wealth, Conscription of
Amendments to address for extension of term of Parliament, Mr. Graham, 3641, 3471, 3480
Statement by Finance Minister, 3187 See Taxation
Webb, Lieutenant, position of, 4563
Webster, Mr. John (Brockville)
Army, 122nd Battalion, 5083 Budget, 953
The dairying industry, 953 Canada's part in the war, 956 Cheese, manufacture and sale of, 2268 Packages, marking of-inspection and sale, 4068
Weichel, Mr. William G. (North Waterloo) Military Service Bill, 2801 National Transcontinental Railway, ties, 455
War-time Elections Bill, 5832
Weights and measures, inspection of, 2383, 3842
Welland canal
Construction of, 2206, 3402, 4925 Dynamiters of, 4926
West Edmonton forest rangers and homestead inspectors, 1476
Western Canada, farm labour for, 3504
Wheat. See Grain
White, Rev. Ward, position of, 3903
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Reply to statements of Sir Sam Hughes, 272
War expenditure, 274 Proposed Minister of Overseas Services, 277, 279
Appointment of General Turner, 279, 280 Purchase of motor trucks and transports, 280
Canada and the war, 282 Army
Camps, sale of liquor in, 818 Medical service, commission of inquiry into, 542
Soldiers, life insurance of, 3589 Officers, unattached, 563 Beans, duty on, 671 Bran and shorts, duty on, 1870 British Government and Canadian Pacific Railway Financial arrangement Bill, 1369, 2059 Budget, 718, 937
National income and expenditure, 718 War expenditure, J18 Income taxation, 719 Taxation of business profits, 719 War loans, 720 Trade of Canada, 721 Free wheat, 937 Amendment of Mr. Oliver, 949 Business Profits War Tax, 5290 Canadian Northern railway, acquisition of, 4011, 4217, 4247-4287, 4467, 4595-4620, 4622-4638, 4835-4873, 4960-5015, 5154 Canadian Pacific railway-Bill to facilitate financial arrangements, etc., 1369, 2059 Civil Service	[DOT]
Enlistments from, 2014, 2253 Promotions, 2010 Salaries, 2008, 2238
Civil Service Act amendment, 2008, 2238 Customs Tariff Act amendment, proposed, 1689
Enlistment, voluntary, 2583 Finance, Department of, estimates, 1790, 1796
Flour, price of, 1053, 1088 Fuel, 1419
Grand Trunk Pacific railway, loan to, 5292 Rails, removal of from, 5296 Hughes, Sir Sam, reply to statement of, 3110
Military Service Bill, 2582 Voluntary enlistment, 2583 Progress of the war, 2584
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Canada's position, 2584 Our duty to the men at the front, 2585 Conscription of wealth, 2587 Referendum proposals, 2589 Income War Tax Bill
See, under this title, Taxation Inland Revenue Department estimates, 2381, 3832
Insurance, 1724, 2100
Life insurance of soldiers, 3589 Insurance Act Amendment Bills, 3848, 4138, 5196
Loans to farmers, 1960 Loans, public, 720
$100,000,000 for Public Service, 342, 435, 4957
Amount received and commission paid, 4957
McNab, Colin C., 579 Members, deceased, tributes to, 5 Motor trucks, purchase of, 280 National Gallery of Canada, 5301 Newsprint paper, 757, 1646 Penny Bank Act, 2061 Pensions, 845
Denial of erroneous statement, 5423 Proportional representation, 908 Quebec and Saguenay railway, 1658 Railway, situation in Canada, 4011, 4058 Recruiting, retarding of, 3110 Senate, appointments to, 930 Shipbuilding, 666
Imperial Munitions Board contracts, 1661 Soldier Settlement Board, 3788 Supply, vote for three months, 2946 Tariff revision, 1689
Taxation measures; Senate amendment no precedent, 5476 Taxation
Business profits, 178, 719, 1438, 1635, 2108 Returns by business concerns, 4246 Income, 719, 1441, 1449, 1631, 3760, 3768, 4070, 4102, 4126, 4638 Wealth, 2587
Toronto Globe, correction of editorial in, 2707
Unclaimed bank balances, 1004 United Grain Growers, Limited, 894 War charities, 54X4, 5481 War expenditure, 718 War finance, vote of $500,000,000, 542 War supplies for British Government, 4953, 5522
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Whitehead life-saving station, 1469 Will iams Head quarantine station, 5312 Wilcox, Mr. Oliver J. (North Essex)
Racing meets, limitation of, 8, 313 Toronto Globe-correction of statement in, 47
Tractor engines, duty on, 676 Wilfrid C., vessel, 4062
William Davies Co., 4151 See Food Investigation Wilson, Mr. Charles A. (Laval)
Canadian Northern railway, acquisition of, 5069
Criminal Code amendment, jurors, 4300, 4326
Military Service Bill, 2925 Contraventions of Act, 3328 Exemptions, 3303 Quebec, recruiting in, 2926 Penitentiaries, salaries of guards, 5803 Potato consignments, 607 Railway Act, The, 3444, 3447 Ships built in Canada, 591 Soldiers, voting of, 4722 Taxation, income, 4073 Wilson, Mr. Gordon C. (Wentworth)
Address in reply to the Governor General's Speech, 9
Canada and the war, 9 Tribute to deceased Member, 10 Provision for returned soldiers, 10 National service, 10 Canada's financial stability, 11 Fiftieth anniversary of Confederation, 11 Toronto, Hamilton and Buffalo railway, 2610
Windsor, N.S.
Tribune building, 1380 Wharf repairs, 1380
Windsor, Ontario, immigration officers, 2357 Windsor Junction, N.S., mail service, 5913 Wireless telegraph. See Telegraphs Woman suffrage
Enfranchisement under War-time Elections Bill, 5416
Pugsley, Mr., motion and amendments by Notice stands, 309; postponed, 672, 759 Amendment to motion of Mr. Sutherland, 1488
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Sutherland, Mr., motion of, 1477, 1627 Borden, Sir Robert, amendment of, 1508 Inquiry by Mr. Pugsley, 4958
Women
Atlantic passports for, 3996, 5783 Munition workers, 4063
Wood, Lieutenant, position of, 4563 Wool, exportation of, 1130 Wright, Mr. William (Muskoka)
Grain, 5208
Wheat, fixing price of, 3694, 3703 Live stock exchanges, 5512 Public Works Department estimates, 5335 Railway Act, The, 3514
Wright, Mr. W. -Con.
Railway transportation for Members of Parliament, 3521	,
Soldier Settlement Board, 3629 Woman suffrage, 1479 Yarmouth harbour improvements, 3870 Year Book, Canada, 2337 Yukon territory, 1736 Administrator, 5122 Commissioner of, 3677 Expenditure, 592 Judges' salaries, 5896 Miners' strike, 3086 Population, 593
Prices and cost of living, 2199, 2237, 2481. 2571, 2954
Zinc. See Mines and minerals