Bill No. 237, to incorporate The Red River Driving Club.-Mr. Beaubien. Bill No. 238, respecting The Subsidiary High Court of the Ancient Order of Foresters in the Dominion of Canada.-Mr. Bell (Hamilton West).
Hon. CHARLES MARCIL (Bonaventure) moved:
That the first report of the joint committee on printing be concurred in.
Motion agreed to.
Mr. E. A. LAPIERRE (Nipissing) moved:
That the fourth and fifth reports of the select standing committee on standing orders presented to the House on Thursday, 17th March, and on Friday, 25th March, respectively be concurred in.
Mr. GUTHRIE:
Will the chairman kindly
intimate what the reports contain.
Mr. LAPIERRE:
The fourth report recommends that the bills which passed the House last session and did not receive the royal assent 'be passed at this session of parliament. The fifth ; report contains the evidence adduced before the committee, showing that the petition respecting a private bill was forwarded in error to the office of the Secretary of State and did not for that reason reach the House in time to be filed within the period prescribed for the receipt of petitions for private bills.
Motion agreed to.
Hon. ERNEST LAPOINTE (Minister of Justice) moved for leave to introduce Bill No. 239, to amend the Criminal Code.
Mr. GUTHRIE:
Explain please.
Mr. LAPOINTE:
This bill is similar to
one which was adopted by the House last year but did not pass the Senate. The object is to repeal certain sections' of the code which were added in 1919 concerning sedition and seditious libel to re-enact the provisions of the code as they were before those amendments.
Motion agreed to and bill read the first time.
On the Orders of the Day: Hon. H, H. STEVENS (Vancouver Centre): Mr. Speaker, I desire to bring to the attention of the Minister of Customs (Mr. Euler) an announcement which appeared in the Border Cities Star of Friday, March 25, and to ask him one or two questions in regard to it. The article reads: Work will be started immediately on remodeling the plant of Canadian Products Limited, division of General Motors of Canada Limited, on Walker road, and the huge factories, will be reopened by January 1, 1928, according to a message received from Ottawa this afternoon sent by Edmond G. Odette, M.P., for Essex North. The reason advanced by officials was that the existing Canadian tariff prevented the operation of the local industry on a profitable basis. Since the first of this year Mr. Odette has been working strenuously in an effort to have the tariff provisions which forced the closing of the Canadian Products factories modified. In his message to The Border Cities Star, the Essex North M.P. announced that he had finally been successful, and that the objectionable customs regulations had been modified. I would ask the minister if any change has been made either in the tariff or the tariff regulations as stated by the hon. member for East Essex (Mr. Odette); if so, was it done by order in council; and if such order was passed, will he lay it on the table of the House?
up to 50 per cent Canadian content; others stated that it ought to be allowed to spread over all the models of a certain make of car; others thought it should be applied on the product of the whole factory. While no order has yet been made, it may be that this will be done to meet the views of those who think they can extend their industry more under a certain interpretation of the act.
Mr. GUTHRIE:
Under a little more protection, it will mean.