1. How many grist mills are there operating in each of the nine provinces?

2. What is the total amount collected to date of the processing levy on wheat products?

3. Is the processing levy as regulated by order in council P.C. 4387, September 3, 1940, still effective ?

Questions

4. If not, in what province has the levy been discontinued and by what authority?

5. Have any refunds been made in any part of Canada, and, if so, what is the total amount refunded in each province?

1. Number of grist mills reporting to the

Canadian wheat board:

British Columbia 22

Alberta 62

Saskatchewan 63

Manitoba 43

Ontario 136

Quebec 28

New Brunswick 6

Nova Scotia 1

Prince Edward Island 4

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2. Total amount of levy collected to date is $2,995,741.85.

3. Yes, subject only to amendment contained in order in council P.C. 134/813, 1st February, 1941.

4. The levy has been, remitted in the case

of wheat grown in the provinces of Quebec, Nova Scotia, New Brunswick and Prince Edward Island, and taken to a mill to be gristed for consumption exclusively to the grower's own home (authority: order in

oouncil P.C. 134/813, 1st February, 1941).

5. Refunds amounting to $144.38 have been remitted in the province of Quebec for wheat grown in that province but gristed for the producer's own use.

In addition we anticipate receiving claims for refunds for wheat gristed for the farmer's

own use, as follows:

New Brunswick

$473 15NovaScotia

39 90Prince Edward Island

316 75Quebec

92 22

Mr. JOHNSTON (Bow River):

How much pay and allowance has Mr. Andrew Davidson received up ,to date as paymaster of the 2nd battalion of the Calgary Highlanders?

Mr. RALSTON:

$156 less national defence tax of $3.36

total received $152.64.

1. Is there a surplus of apples in Canada in 1940-41?

2. If so, did the government purchase such surplus and has it been disposed of?

1. Yes.

2. The government has assumed responsibility for part of the apple crop and has been disposing of same through processing and the distribution of the processed product.

1. Have any of our Canadian universities offered buildings to the government for use in the present war?

2. If so, which of them, on -what terms and conditions and for what purpose?

3. What university property, if any, is now being used by the government for war purposes?

Mr. SHAW:

For a copy of all letters, telegrams and other documents exchanged between the government or any department thereof or any government board or any official thereof and any person, persons or firms, in respect to complaints relative to the processing levy on wheat products in the provinces of Quebec, New Brunswick, Nova Scotia and Prince Edward Island.

Mr. NICHOLSON:

For a return showing, (1) the names of persons from Saskatchewan now employed by the Department of National War Services; (2) the duties of each of these persons; (3) salary paid to each; (4) value and source of any superannuation or other pay received by each of these persons.

Mr. CHURCH:

For a return showing what federal revenues have been collected from the city of Toronto, during the last year of record in (a) postal receipts; (b) customs; (c) excise; (d) income tax; (e) inland revenue; (f) sales tax; (g) other federal levies. Also a statement of the expenditures made in the city of Toronto by the federal government during the last year of record?

Mr. ILSLEY:

Mr. Speaker, it would be impossible to obtain this information, at least without a tremendous amount of research, and I suggest that the motion be dropped.

Mr. SPEAKER:

Dropped.

Mr. CHURCH:

Would the minister give the information as far as possible?