Mr. SANDERSON:

What amount of money will be paid from the federal treasury to the province of Manitoba on account of subsidies in each fiscal year after the agreement for the transfer of the natural resources comes into effect and until the population reaches: (a) 800,000; (b)

1,200,000; (c) thereafter?

Mr. MACKENZIE KING:

Total annual payment on account of subsidies :

1. On basis of present population, $1,662,-

084.18.

2. When population reaches 800,000, $1,991,-

584.18.

3. When population reaches 1,200,000, $2,686,-

584.18.

The total will vary in intervening years due to changes in population.

Mr. SANDERSON:

What amount of money will be paid from the federal treasury to the province of Alberta on account of subsidies in each fiscal year after the agreement for the transfer of the natural resources comes into effect and until the population reaches: (a) 800,000; (b) 1,200,000; (c) thereafter?

Mr. MACKENZIE KING:

Total annual payment on account of subsidies :

1. On basis of present population, $1,670,435.

2. When population reaches 800,000, $2,015,375.

3. When population reaches 1,200,000, $2,710,375.

The total will vary in intervening years due to changes in population.

Mr. SANDERSON:

What amount of money will be paid from the federal treasury .to the province of Saskatchewan on account of subsidies in each fiscal year after the agreement for the transfer of the natural resources comes into effect and until the population reaches: (a) 1,200,000; (b) thereafter ?

Mr. MACKENZIE KING:

Total annual payment on account of subsidies :

1. On basis of present population (859,900), $2,063,295.

2. When population reaches 1,200,000, $2,710,375.

The total will vary in intervening years due to changes in population.

Mr. SANDERSON:

What amount of money will be paid from the federal treasury to the province of British Columbia on account of subsidies in each fiscal year after the .agreement for the transfer of the railway belt and the Peace River block comes into effect?

Mr. MACKENZIE KING:

On basis of

present population, $738,816.66. As population increases, the amount paid in respect of per capita grant will inorease. The grant for government and legislation also will increase from $190,0000 to $220,000 when population exceeds 800,000, and to $240,000 when population exceeds 1,500,000.

Mr. S. W. JACOBS (Cartier):

I would like to ask the Prime Minister a question in his capacity of Minister of External Affairs:

In view of the fact that Canada is a member of the council of the League of Nations and a signatory to the treaty of Versailles, and that the mandate over Palestine was conferred on Great Britain to be exercised as a trust under the supervision of the League of Nations, was the government of Canada consulted with regard to the recent stoppage of immigration into Palestine, or has this government taken steps to inquire into the causes of such action on the part of the government of Great Britain, or, if not, will it undertake to do so?

Right Hon. W. L. MACKENZIE KING (Prime Minister):

My hon. friend was kind

enough to acquaint me with the fact that he was going to ask this question, and I am prepared at this time to answer it.

Under the rules laid down by the League of Nations for the regulation of mandated territories it is not customary for the mandatory power to bring any question of administration before the council or before individual members of the council, and the question referred to, the restriction of immigration into Palestine, has accordingly not been brought to the

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attention of the Canadian government. Provision is made for periodic review of the administration of the mandatory power by the organ of the league, the Mandates Commission, before which this question will doubtless come in due course.

Mr. E. C. GOTT (Essex):

The Prime Minister does not always answer his questions so fully as he has answered the present one. I had a question on the order paper the other day concerning patronage in South Essex, and the right hon. gentleman did not give it such full consideration.