Mr. LAPOINTE:

Why should my impartial friend, the Deputy Speaker, mix up politics with a question of this kind?

Mr. LaYERGNE: I am not mixing up

politics; I am just giving history. "

Mr. ST-PERE: Was it at that time that somebody was going to shoot holes through the British flag?

Mr. LaYERGNE: I am not afraid to

answer that. Yes, it was, and after that he became a member of the cabinet. I do not see why he should deny having said that. He did not invent that phrase; it was first used by Sir Adolphe Chapleau, and it was true. The right hon. leader of the opposition, 1 am sure, is not going to deny the good old days of Papineau and William Lyon Mackenzie. I am not, as a Canadian. The men who shot holes through the British flag in those dark days won for us the liberties of which we are so proud to-day, which liberties, now that we have them, have made us loyal subjects. I do not see why my hon. friends opposite should make any reproaches.

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Mr. POTILIOT:

We are not making reproaches, but we are very much surprised that afterwards that gentleman swallowed his words.

Mr. LaVERGNE: I am not making any reproach, and let my hon. friends opposite have the same courage and approve those words. Here we are in the days of radio, and we cannot say one thing in one province and deny it in another. Those days are past, and I am asking my hon. friends opposite to have the courage of the hon. member for North Battleford, (Mr. McIntosh), for instance, and if they approve of a Canadian flag, let them get up and say so.

Mr. ST-PERE: Of course we do.

Mr. LaVERGNE: I am glad to hear it, but I notice that when my 'hon. friend from North Battleford sat down, not many on that side of the house got up to support him.

Mr. BRADETTE:

There was no cheering on the other side of the house.

On motion of Mr. Bennett the house adjourned at 6 p.m.

Tuesday, May 26, 1931