On the orders of the day:

On the orders of the day: Mr. JEAN-FRANQOIS POULIOT (Temis-couata): Mr. Speaker, I would ask the government to make at the earliest possible day, if possible to-morrow, a statement as to the purchase by or transfer to this government of Canadian Pacific Railway securities, stocks or bonds, held in England. As the matter has been referred to in the press it is of vital importance that we should know what has been done.

On the orders of the day: Mr. NORMAN J. M. LOCKHART (Lincoln): I should like to direct a brief inquiry to the Minister of National Defence based on two or three letters received to-day. Is it true that the permanent huts or quarters in some of the established camps have been turned over to the four-months trainees, while the regular units that formerly occupied them have been put under canvas some distance away? That is the advice I have received to-day.

The house in committee of ways and means, Mr. Fournier (Hull), in the chair.

1. That succession duties be levied upon or in respect of the following, that is to say: - (a) The succession to property, wherever situated, and beneficial interests therein, except real property situated outside of Canada, where the deceased was at the time of his death domiciled in Canada or in one of the provinces thereof; (b) The succession to property situated in Canada, or to beneficial interests therein, where the deceased was at the time of his death domiciled outside of Canada. Resolution agreed to. 2. That, in addition to the properties owned by the deceased at his death, the succession shall be deemed to include, for purposes of taxation, the following properties, namely:

_ (a) Property transferred by the deceased in his lifetime in contemplation of death; (b) Property transferred by way of donatio mortis causa; (c) Property transferred by gift in the lifetime of the deceased after April 29, 1941, and within three years prior to his death; (d) Property transferred by gift in the lifetime of the deceased where benefits -are reserved to the deceased during his lifetime; (e) Property -held jointly by the deceased and one or more persons and payable to or passing to the survivor or survivors, except that part of such property Which was contributed by the survivor or survivors, provided that where the joint tenancy or holding is created by a person other than the deceased and the survivor or survivors, such property shall be deemed to have been contributed to equally by the deceased and the survivor or equally by the deceased and each of the survivors; (f) Property comprised in a settlement; (g) Annuities or other interests purchased or provided by the deceased to the extent of the beneficial interest arising on his death; (h) Money received or receivable under policies of insurance effected by the deceased or by a personal corporation on his life in proportion to the premiums paid by the deceased or by such personal corporation; (i) Property of -which the deceased was at the time of his death competent to dispose; (j) Property transferred to or settled on any person after April 29, 1941 by the deceased and within three years before his death in consideration of marriage; (k) Property transferred for nominal or insufficient consideration to the extent of the difference between the consideration and the value thereof; (l) Estates in dower or by the curtesy.