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

Mr. Speaker, the Minister

of Finance (Mr. Usley) has a resolution or two which he would like to introduce on Monday next. The resolutions have to do with Canada's war effort, and I should therefore like now to move:

That on Monday next consideration of the special order relative to the debate on the address to His Excellency be suspended until the house has proceeded with and completed procedure in respect of certain resolutions to be introduced by the Minister of Finance.

This resolution, if accepted, will enable the minister to introduce his resolutions on Monday and, if favourably received by the house, to have them disposed of before the debate on the address is concluded.

Hon. R. B. HANSON (Leader of the Opposition) :

Mr. MACKENZIE KING:

All that can be said at the moment about the resolutions is that they relate to trade and taxation. I fully expected that hon. gentlemen opposite and other members of the house might wish after the resolutions were introduced, to have an opportunity of carefully considering them before beginning to discuss them, in which event I had in mind asking the house to agree during an interval to continue with the debate on the address.

Mr. HANSON (York-Sunbury):

That

might be just as satisfactory.

Mr. MACKENZIE KING:

I believe matters would work out satisfactorily in that way. I understand that it is the intention of the Minister of Finance to have the resolutions referred to the committee of ways and means. As the house is aware, the committee of ways and means and the committee of supply have not yet been set up. Standing order 57 provides that the first proceeding after the address has been agreed to is to appoint the two committees of the whole house, the one of supply and the other of ways and means. The standing order reads:

The house shall appoint the committees of supply, and ways and means, at the commencement of every session, so soon as an address has been agreed to, in answer to His Excellency's speech.

If the resolutions are to be referred to the committee of ways and means, before the debate on the address is concluded it will be necessary to suspend that rule.

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

Hon. members will have observed that I had placed on yesterday's votes and proceedings notice to suspend standing order 57 in regard to the establishment of a committee of supply and a committee of ways and means. I would therefore, with the consent of the house, move:

That this house will, at its next sitting, resolve itself into a committee to consider o<

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a supply to be granted to his majesty, and that standing order 57 in relation thereto be suspended.

I shall introduce later a similar motion with respect to a committee of ways and means. Both committees will then be established.

Mr. MACKENZIE KING:

Mr. Speaker,

I beg leave to propose a similar motion with respect to a committee of ways and means:

That this house will, at its next sitting, resolve itself into a committee to consider the ways and means for raising the supply to be granted to his majesty, and that standing order 57 in relation thereto be suspended.

, Motion agreed to.

Mr. W. H. GOLDING (Huron-Perth):

With the unanimous consent of the house, I move:

That the first report of the standing committee on standing orders, presented yesterday, be now concurred in.

Mr. J. G. DIEFENBAKER (Lake Centre):

t should like to direct a question to the Minister of Munitions and Supply (Mr. Howe). The Regina Leader-Post of November 27 carried a news item to the effect that the government intended to establish in the near future a large war industry in the province of Saskatchewan, and indicated that a decision had been made in that regard. Is the minister prepared to advise the house whether the report is in accordance with the facts, and if so, whether a decision has been arrived at as to where this industry is to be located, and when the work will begin?

Hon. C. D. HOWE (Minister of Munitions and Supply):

I have no knowledge of the subject matter of my hon. friend's question. In saying that, I should also say that it is quite possible that some of our officers are examining as to a location in that province, although I have no information that they are. But any statement that anything definite has been determined is premature, because if a definite proposal had been arrived at I would certainly have heard of it.