Mr. LAPOINTE:

Where was the harm if there was nothing in it?

Mr. BENNETT:

I will tell the Minister of Justice what the harm was, if I may interrupt. The harm was that in western Canada the newspaper reports were being believed, and the farmers were hardening their attitude towards the purchase of British goods on which they had previously asked an increased preference up to 50 per cent.

Mr. LAPOINTE:

Canada did not suffer any harm.

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Mr. MACKENZIE ICING:

The statement, as I understand, originated in this country and was cabled across as a matter of fact. Is that not so?

Mr. BENNETT:

I am unable to answer that question; I do not know.

Mr. MACKENZIE KING:

I understand

the story originated in a Tory paper in Toronto and was cabled to the old country and spread about there, and now we are being chastised-

Mr. BENNETT:

The right hon. gentleman surely is bound to give his authority for that statement. I would like to know, because I really do not know. I understood the story was carried by the Canadian Press.

Mr. MACKENZIE ICING:

I have very

good grounds for believing that to be true, and I understand that the Canadian Press made an apology.

Mr. BENNETT:

But the Canadian Press

is not a Tory paper.

Mr. MACKENZIE KING:

They were

quoting from a Tory paper.

Mr. BENNETT:

What was the paper?

Mr. MACKENZIE KING:

I think my hon. friend can find the papers if he looks for them, and I will tel'l my hon. friend one thing for which I can vouch: I received a communication from the High Commissioner's office announcing that a sensational despatch had appeared in the London Times, sent by its correspondent from here, which was more or less upsetting the feeling in Great Britain, and they wanted to know whether or not this despatch was correct- It was a icopy of something that had appeared in one of the Canadian papers here, but any one in Canada would have known

any one who had taken care to exercise careful supervision in the matter-that the report never should have been sent across to the old country. It was immediately corrected by the High Commissioner's office, and corrected in the papers in the old country. That is the kind of propaganda that does mischief in the old world.

Mr. BENNETT:

What is the Tory paper? -that is what I want to know Was it the Toronto Star?

Mr. MACKENZIE KING:

May I now

pass to another subject? The next subject my hon. friend (Mr. Bennett) dealt with was the question of treaties. He said France had put up her duties notwithstanding the fact that we had a treaty with France which assured us a minimum; that Germany had

put up her duties notwithstanding the fact that we had a treaty with her, and that Italy had done the same.

Mr. BENNETT:

Italy, not Germany.

Mr. MACKENZIE KING:

But my hon. friend said Germany.

Mr. BENNETT:

I said that Germany

had raised its discriminating tariff, but that is not a treaty.

Mr. MACKENZIE KING:

My hon. friend brought in a reference to Germany, to the effect that we had a treaty with Germany.

Mr. BENNETT:

No, a discrimination of six cents a bushel against Canadian wheat in favour of American wheat, but Italy and France had treaties.

Mr. MACKENZIE KING:

Let us dispose of Germany first. Does my hon. friend contend that there is a discriminatory rate?