1. How many labour-management production committees have been set up in aircraft plants throughout Canada?

2. Where are these plants located?

Mr. HOWE:

Labour-management production committees have been set up in the following aircraft manufacturing plants: Noor-duyn Aviation Limited, Cartierville, Quebec; Federal Aircraft Limited, Montreal, Quebec; Canadian Car & Foundry Co. Ltd., Montreal, Quebec, Amherst, Nova Scotia, Fort William, Ontario, (in process of organization); Canadian Vickers Limited, Cartierville, Quebec; Fairchild Aircraft Limited, Longueuil, Quebec; The de Havilland Aircraft of Canada Ltd, Downsview, Ontario; Victory Aircraft, Limited, Malton, Ontario; Fleet Aircraft, Limited, Fort Erie, Ontario; Boeing Aircraft of Canada, Ltd, Vancouver, B.C.

The following aircraft overhaul and repair plants have also set up labour-management production committees: Clark Ruse Aircraft Limited, Dartmouth, Nova Scotia (set up but not functioning); Central Aircraft Limited, London, Ontario; MacDonald Bros. Aircraft Limited, Winnipeg, Manitoba; Prairie Airways Limited, Moose Jaw, Saskatchewan; Canadian Pacific Air Lines Limited, Moose Jaw, Saskatchewan, New Westminster, British Columbia; M & C Aviation Company, Ltd, Prince Albert, Saskatchewan; Aircraft Repair Limited, Edmonton, Alberta.

1. What boards have been set up by the government since the beginning of the war?

2. On which of these boards is there a representative of labour?

3. Who are such representatives, what boards are they on and what are their labour affiliations?

Mr. McLARTY:

I propose to ask that this be made an order for return. I believe a parliamentary return tabled to-day answers completely the first part of the question. I believe the second part, too, is completely answered, although part 3 would not be. I suggest that the question be, allowed to stand until the hon. member has had an opportunity to read the return. It is a fairly lengthy return. Following that we can give such further information as he may require.

Question stands.

Mr. DIEFENBAKER:

[DOT] 1. Have any arrangements, final or tentative, been entered into with the Associated Credit Bureaus of Canada Limited, or other credit agencies, publishers of city directories, etc., whereby they or any of them will be utilized in tracing the addresses of draft evaders?

2. If so, with whom?

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3. What are the arrangements, and what payments if any are to be made for services to be rendered by said company or other agencies ?

Mr. MITCHELL:

A general statement was made on March 15 (see Hansard, page 1235). The only specific arrangement 'has been that covered by order in council P.C. 2278, dated March 22, 1943, with the Hooper-Holmes bureau, Toronto, Ontario (copy appears below). No -payments have been made. Arrangement has just become effective.

Certified to be a true copy of a minute of a meeting of the committee of the privy council, approved by His Excellency the Governor General on the 22nd March, 1943.

The committee of the privy council have had before them a report, dated 19th March, 1943, from the Minister of Labour, representing that the department is obligated to locate the whereabouts of certain individuals to whom the divisional registrars have been unable to deliver first call-up notices for military service;

That it is felt that all possible methods should be used to locate such people;

That the Hooper-Holmes bureau, head office 11 King street west, room 607, Toronto, Ont., which operates a commercial reporting organization from coast to coast, is available to do this work on a fee basis; and

That, instead of their standard rates being charged whether the subject of inspection is located or not, the bureau will agree to charge $2.50 per case for only those which they are able to locate.

The minister, therefore, recommends

(a) That authority be granted to use the

Hooper-Holmes bureau for the work of tracing people to whom first call-up notices cannot be delivered. .

(b) That authority be granted to pay a fee of $2.50 to the Hooper-Holmes bureau for each case where the information provided by the bureau results in the location and identification of the subject of the first call-up notice.

The committee concur in the foregoing recommendation and submit the same for approval.

1. Did the Department of National Defence recently purchase some land adjacent to Connaught camp near Ottawa?

Prince Edward Island

Nova Scotia

New Brunswick

Ontario

Manitoba

British Columbia ....

2. If so, how much did they purchase?

3. What was the purchase price per acre?

1. No. The department has expropriated approximately 775 acres.

2. Answered by No. 1.

3. Compensation has yet to be awarded by the Exchequer Court of Canada.

1. When the Bank of Canada was first established were the gold reserves of the chartered banks and of the dominion itself, transferred to said bank?

2. If so, what was the total amount of gold so transferred to the Bank of Canada upon its establishment ?

Mr. ILSLEY:

The gold held by the

chartered banks in Canada in the amount of $37,480,404.46 (valued at $20.67 a fine ounce) was transferred to the Bank of Canada when it commenced operations in 1935.

The gold held by the Dominion of Canada, as security for dominion notes in circulation, in the amount of $69,455,439.44 (valued at $20.67 a fine ounce) was transferred to the Bank of Canada when it commenced operations in 1935.

Mr. ROY:

During the years 1937-38 to 1941-42, both inclusive, what subsidies for the trans-Canada route were granted by the government to each of the provinces?

Mr. MITCHELL:

Agreements entered into with the province under relief legislation provided for a 50 per cent contribution by the dominion for certain undertakings which included work on the trans-Canada highway. The following contributions were made during the period 1937-38 to 1941-42 inclusive.

1937-38 1938-39 Total750 00

750 0012.506 52 .:.... 12,506 52253,375 00

253,375 0055,003 72 214,650 86 269,654 58107,062 06

107,062 06103,777 68

103,777 68$532,474 98 $214,650 86 $747,125 84

These projects were approved for dominion contributions on representations made by the respective provinces under relief legislation. No representations were received from provinces other than those listed above for contribution to expenditures on the trans-Canada highway during the period in question.

Questions

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1. Has the government, through the medium of the national selective service bureau, a complete record of workers engaged in the different industries of the country?

2. If so, what is the record for each province of the number of female employees engaged in the different war industries?

3. If not, how does the government control the manual labour of the country, and what are the precise functions of the national selective service body?