Mr. CARDIN:
I feel sure that provision
for an audit of the accounts of harbour commissions is made in the Audit Act, but I will ascertain beyond doubt and inform my hon. friend.
Mr. HANSON:
Is it an independent audit or a departmental audit?
Mr. CARDIN:
It is made by the Board of Audit which has been created to carry out work of that character.
Mr. HANSON:
If that is so it should be
satisfactory.
Mr. CARDIN:
I think there is an error
in section 25 which I have just noticed. It is provided that the corporation may "in the following cases seize and detain any vessel within the limits of the province of Nova Scotia''. That is manifestly an error.
Mr. HANSON:
In my copy of the bill it
is "New Brunswick''.
Mr. CARDIN:
My copy is wrong then.
Mr. MacLAREN:
In my copy it reads
"within the limits of the province of New Brunswick".
Mr, CARDIN: Then the error has been
corrected in other copies of the bill.
Mr. HANSON:
May I draw the minister's attention to the fact that the bay of Fundy is partly within the province of New Brunswick and partly within the province of Nova Scotia and that it has been looked upon as a mare clausum. Has the minister given any consideration to that matter? I am just suggesting it for his consideration.
Mr. CARDIN:
I will give consideration to that point.
Preamble agreed -to.
Bill reported.
Special War Revenue Act
Mr. CARDIN moved the third reading of the bill.
Mr. GARDINER:
It was understood that (his bill would not be read a third time to-day,
Mr. SPEAKER:
Next sitting of the House.
Motion stands.
Hon. J. A. ROBB (Minister of Finance) moved the second reading of and concurrence in amendments made by the Senate to Bill No. 62, for the purpose of establishing in Canada a system of long term mortgage credits for farmers.
Mr. GARDINER:
Are these amendments satisfactory to the minister?
Mr. ROBB:
The bill as it passed the
House of Commons was identical with the bill which passed the House of Commons last year, with the exception of two small amendments, one in section 5 subsection (2), in which the shares of the board are declared to be non-transferable. The amendment in the House of Commons was to insert after the word ."transferable" the words "except at the option of the board." The bill, as it comes back to the House for concurrence is in exactly the same form as the bill which was concurred in by the House last year, with the exception of the provision for recognition of colonization societies, and this was an amendment made by the House of Commons itself.
Motion agreed to; amendments read the second time and concurred in.
Hon. J. A. ROBB (Minister of Finance) moved the second reading of Bill No. 230, to amend the Special AArar Revenue Act, 1915. Motion agreed to, bill read the second time, and the House went into committee thereon, Mr. Johnston in the chair. Section 1 agreed to. On section 2-Power to determine fair price.
Mr. GARDINER:
Will the minister explain the last paragraph in section 2?
fMr. Cardin.]