Mr. CARVELL:
Will the minister tell
us what he has done to try to settle the Vancouver strike?
Mr. CROTHERS:
I did.
Mr. CARVELL:
Nothing has been given so far. He sent a telegram.
Mr. GROTHERS:
I gave a full statement to the House.
Mr. CARVELL:
And you reported that nothing had been done then. Give us the information now.
Mr. GROTHERS:
No, I told you the
other night that I was in Vancouver Island; I told you my fair-wage officer who went to the Crowsnest Pass in 1910 went to Vancouver Island day after day. I told you I appointed a commissioner; I told you that my deputy spent a month at Vancouver Island and that Mr. McNiven of Vancouver was in constant communication with Vancouver Island. And in the face of this the hon. member gets up and says nothing has been done, nothing more than was done by Mr. Lemieux seven or eight years ago.
Mr. FOSTER:
Preposterous.
Mr. GROTHERS:
Yes.
Mr. FOSTER:
I think the arrangement
was that items 287 and 288 were to pass and the other items were to stand.
Mr. VERVILLE:
Just one word.
Mr. FOSTER:
Oh, let us go home.
Mr. VERVILLE:
There is no letter whatever from the department to the mine owners in the report of the commissioner. Before we proceed with the other items another day, it seems to me that all the .correspondence should be laid on the Table so that we' may have a chance to see the position that has been taken. I am asking what will be no more than fair because the present report is only half complete, and my hon. friend knows it very well.
Mr. CROTHERS:
On Friday evening Sir Wilfrid Laurier asked me to bring the papers here. They are here to-day. You could have seen anything you wanted to see.
Mr. MACDONALD:
Are they on the
Table?
Mr. CROTHERS:
No, they are here. We do not put originals on the Table as a rule, unless it be for a few moments.
Mr. MACDONALD:
Why not send them to my hon. friend?
Mr. CROTHERS:
No, I will not, but I will put them on the Table.
Mr. CARVELL:
That is all we want.
Mr. FOSTER:
Is it understood that they should be put on the Table to-night and
that the hon. member for Maisonneuve should peg away at them all night?
Mr. CARVELL:
There ought to be some understanding so that the hon. member for Maisonneuve can see them. The minister ought io be fair.