Mr. MILLAR:

Has the legislature of the province of Saskatchewan, or any person representing said legislature, made representation, verbally or in writing to this Government or in writing to the Government immediately preceding this Government that could properly be construed as an effort to prevent the importation of alcoholic liquor into the province of Saskatchewan for purpose of export to other Canadian provinces?

Hon. Mr. MACKENZIE KING:

Yes.

1. Are there any shops, depending directly or indirectly on public moneys, In which skilled labour and ordinary labour are employed?

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2. Are not the Public Works Department, the Marine Department, the Secretary of State Department, the Railways Department, and the Militia Department employing non-union persons, in shops under control of said departments?

3. If not, what special department or departments provide moneys for shops in which labour unions are recognized?

4. If any shop depending on public moneys is under one union, under what department is the money coming from after having been voted by Parliament?

5. How many labour unions exist in this country?

6. What are the names of such unions?

1. Yes.

2. Yes.

3. Answered by reply to No. 2.

4. The Government does not distinguish between organized and unorganized labour or as between different branches of organized labour.

5. The number of local trades union branches reported as for the calendar year 1921 was 2,668.

6. Details appear in the 11th annual report on Labour Organization in Canada, pages 165 to 236.

1. Are the amounts aggregating $24,260, appearing under the heading Law Branch on page 18 of the estimates, to be paid out in connection with the preparation of legislation to be enacted during 1922-23?

2. What are the duties of Parliamentary Counsel, salary $6,000?

3. What are the duties of the two Assistant Chief Parliamentary Counsel, salary $4,020 each?

4. What are the duties of the Assistant to the Parliamentary Counsel, salary $3,300?

5. What are the duties of the principal clerk, salary $2,160?

6. What are the duties respectively of the senior law clerk stenographer and law clerk stenographer, whose salaries aggregate $2,760?

7. In addition to above Parliamentary Counsel are there not solicitors employed in each or in most of the departments?

8. Is not the legal advice of the Department of Justice available to Parliament?

9. How many of the Bills that have come before the House at this session have been wholly prepared by Parliamentary Counsel, the two Assistant Parliamentary Counsel or the Assistant to Parliamentary Counsel?

10. Are the great majority of the bills that come before Parliament prepared by outside counsel, not in the permanent employ of the Government?

11. Is the assistant to Parliamentary Counsel assistant as well to the two assistant chief parliamentary counsel?

1. Yes, in part.

2. To advise the Speaker, officers or members of the House whenever requested,

to supervise the printing of statutes, and such other duties as are mentioned in rule 64 of the House.

3. To assist the Parliamentary Counsel.

4. Answered by No. 3.

5. To assist in the general work of the office.

6. To take and transcribe dictation from the chief and his assistants.

7. Yes, eleven departments have solicitors.

8. Yes.

9. Eight public bills; no private bills.

10. The great majority of the private bills that come before Parliament are prepared by outside counsel, not in the employ of the Government. Of the public bills, a majority are outlined or drafted before coming to the Parliamentary Counsel, some very completely, but others requiring more or less extensive alterations.

11. He acts under the instructions of the Parliamentary Counsel.

1. What is the total amount of funds transferred by the Canadian Wheat Board to the federal government (a) from surplus account; (b) from participation certificates; and (c) from any other source?

2. What is the total value of outstanding participation certificates, if any, issued by the Canadian Wheat Board?

3. Is the value of such outstanding participation certificates still collectable by the owners thereof?

4. If so, when does the Government propose to discontinue making payments on the same?

5. If the Government has already discontinued redeeming outstanding participation certificates, what action has been taken or will be taken by the Government in regard to the final disposition of the funds set aside to meet payments on participation certificates?

6. Have any recommendations as to the disposal of such funds been made by the Canadian Wheat Board?

1. If so, what were the recommendations?

1. (a) From surplus account, $560,000; (b) from participation certificates, $175,000; (c) from any other sources, nil; total, $735,000.

2. The total value of outstanding participation certificates issued by the Canadian Wheat Board as on May 23, 1922, is $209,526.84.

3. Applications for payments on outstanding participation certificates are still being presented, and payments on such certificates are still being made by the Canadian Wheat Board.

4. The question has not yet been considered.

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5. Answered by No. 3.

6. Yes.

7. The Canadian Wheat Board recommended that the first amount, viz. $560,000, transferred from surplus account to the federal government, should be distributed to the provincial governments pro rata, on the basis of the quantity of wheat delivered by producers in each of '*he said provinces to the board, such moneys to be used for the immediate relief of distressed farmers in the various provinces, and that any money remaining on account of unpaid certificates should be used for research work, particularly for the prevention of black rust in wheat.

Hon. Mr. BAXTER:

When did the Department of Public Works recommend that seventy-eight wharves in the province of New Brunswick be taken over from the provincial government?

2. Was an( Order in Council passed, based upon such recommendations?

3. If so, what was the date of such Order in Council and what were its terms?

4. Did the government of the province of New Brunswick secure the legislation necessary to enable it to make a transfer of such wharves at the sites thereof to the Dominion Government? If so, when?

5. Did Engineers Stead and Goodspeed, under date of 14th of April, 1920, and the 10th of April, 1920, respectively, report that the amount required for the repair of said wharves was $86,823 less the amount of $5,385 in respect of five wharves not included in the recommendation to Council?

6. Has the Department of Public Works any further information as to the amount required since the date of these reports for the repair of said wharves, and what is now the estimated cost of such repairs?

7. Is it the intention of the Government to complete the acceptance of a transfer of said wharves from the province of New Brunswick?

8. If so, at what time?

9. Is the Dominion Government now bearing the cost of repairs of said wharves? If so, for what period has it been so doing?

10. If transfer has not yet been accepted, does the Government suggest that anything, and if so, what, remains to be done by the provincial government to warrant transfer being accepted?

11. Is it the intention of the Dominion Government at the present session to make any provision for the repair of said wharves, or any of them?

12. If so, what provision and for which wharves?

Hon. Mr. KING (Kootenay) :

1, 2 and 3. No Order in Council passed.

4. Yes 'by Act 8, Geo. V, Chapter 10, supplemented by Act 9, Geo. V., Chapter 44, Statutes of New Brunswick.

5. Yes.

6. No.

7 and 8. Under consideration.

9. No.

10. Nothing further is required on the part of the provincial government.

11 and 12. Under consideration.

1. Is it the intention of the Government to appeal the dicision of His Honour Judge Cusson in the Merchants Bank case against D. C. Mac-arow, former general manager, of wilfully giving false returns to the Minister of Finance?

2. Is it the intention of the Government to prefer a bill of indictment at the assizes against the said Macarow?

3. Is it the intention of the Government to hold a parliamentary inquiry into the whole Merchants Bank fiasco-if not, why not?

4. And is it the intention of the Government to so amend the Criminal Code as to compel presidents, auditors and directors and general managers of chartered banks to direct and fulfil their functions as bank officials, and to provide penalties for breaches?

1 and 2. There is no right of appeal, but the Government has asked the Attorney General at Quebec to submit the case against D. C. Macarow to the grand jury at the next assizes upon the charges and proof with a view to the finding of a bill of indictment.

3. While these proceedings are pending the Government do not propose any further action.

4. These are matters for consideration when the question of a renewal of the Bank Act comes before Parliament.