May 31, 1920

FINAL, REPORT PRESENTED-COMMISSION DISSOLVED.

UNION

Robert Laird Borden (Prime Minister; Secretary of State for External Affairs)

Unionist

Rt. Hon. Sir ROBERT BORDEN (Prime Minister):

I beg to lay on the Table

the final report, together with a number of interim reports, of the Munitions Resources Commission. I understand that there is a sufficient supply of these reports to enable each hon. member to obtain a copy. I also beg to lay on the Table copy of an Order in Council dissolving the commission, which has now completed its work.

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COPY OF ORDER IN COUNCIL TABLED.


P.C. No. 1005, dated May 20, 1920, resipect-' ing engagement of seamen in the Royal Canadian Navy.


NORTHWEST GAME ACT AMENDMENT.


Hon. ARTHUR MEIGHEN (Minister of the Interior) moved for leave to introduce Bill No. 151, to amend the Northwest Game Act.


LIB

William Lyon Mackenzie King (Leader of the Official Opposition)

Liberal

Hon. W. L. MACKENZIE KING:

Explain.

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UNION

Arthur Meighen (Minister of Mines; Minister of the Interior; Superintendent-General of Indian Affairs)

Unionist

Mr. MEIGHEN:

The amendment is

merely to change the seasons for the hunting of certain animals in the Northwest Territories, in one case to make them comply with the advancing sun, and in another case to make them the same as in British Columbia.

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Motion agreed to, and Bill read the first time


YUKON PLACER MINING ACT AMENDMENT.


Hon. ARTHUR * MEIGHEN (Minister of the Interior) moved for leave to introduce Bill No. 152, to amend the Yukon Placer Mining Act.


LIB

William Lyon Mackenzie King (Leader of the Official Opposition)

Liberal

Hon. W. L. MACKENZIE KING:

Explain.

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UNION

Arthur Meighen (Minister of Mines; Minister of the Interior; Superintendent-General of Indian Affairs)

Unionist

Mr. MEIGHEN:

The purpose of this amendment is to enlarge the opportunities of placer mining in the Yukon. The Yukon has been pretty well developed to its capacity, or rather, I should say, as that might be a dangerous statement, that it has been developed so far that now the prosipect of the placer mining worker is not so alluring as it was. This Bill enlarges the area on new creeks and old creeks over which the miner may prospect and enlarges also the rights for which he may record.

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Motion agreed to, and Bill read the first time.


SENATE BILL.

FIRST READING.


Bill No. 148 (from the Senate), for the relief of Lockhart Pierce Sutton.-Mr. Doug, las (Strathcona).


THE WEST INDIES CONFERENCE.


On the Orders of the Day:


L LIB

Rodolphe Lemieux

Laurier Liberal

Hon. RODOLPHE LEMIEUX (Maison-neuve):

May I ask my right hon. friend the Minister of Trade and Commerce, what is the object of the present conference in Ottawa between the delegates of the West Indies and the Canadian Government? Is the object purely a commercial one, or is there something else?

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May 31, 1920