Mr. CHURCH:

For a copy of all letters, telegrams, cables, orders in council and other documents exchanged between the government of Canada or any officer thereof and,the governments of Great Britain, Australia and the United States of America, or from General MacArthur and the Right Hon. Dr. Evatt of Australia, in relation to the proposed peace treaty with Japan. Also any correspondence with respect to the rebuilding the textile industry in Japan to a pre-war standard, as proposed by the United States of America.

Mr. ST. LAURENT: Mr. Speaker, with the exception of the draft treaty on the disarmament and demilitarization of Japan, which the United1 States government released for publication on June 21, 1946, any proposals with regard to the Japanese peace settlement

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that may have been exchanged between the Canadian government and the United States government or governments of other nations of the British commonwealth were on an exploratory basis and are confidential in nature and could not be published.

With respect to the Japanese textile industry, I would point out that this is one of the matters studied by the Far Eastern Commission in Washington, on which Canada is represented. As hon. members know, that is a commission composed1 of representatives of eleven nations. By agreement they are treating their deliberations as confidential. We could not make public the reports received by us from our representative. There is the report of the Japanese mission on the textile industry, which I should be glad to make available to the hon. member, together with a copy of the United States government's proposed treaty of June 21, 1946. There are many matters which I should be glad to show the hon. member in confidence. He will see that we could not table them for publication. Under the circumstances I suggest that the hon. member might be prepared to allow the motion to drop. If after he has seen these files he thinks there is something further we can make available for publication, perhaps he could renew his motion.

Motion dropped.

Mr. MOORE:

For a copy of the agreement between the Manitoba government and the federal government under which the Snow Lake mining road is to be completed?

Mr. MOORE:

For a copy of the agreement between the Alberta government and the federal government under which the Grimshaw-Great Slave lake road is to be completed?

Mr. HATFIELD:

For a copy of a resolution moved by the Minister of Agriculture in the province of New Brunswick, and all correspondence which passed between the provincial minister and the federal Minister of Agriculture or the Department of Agriculture, regarding a fair price on potatoes under the Agricultural Prices Support Act, 1944.

Mr. HATFIELD:

For a copy of all correspondence exchanged between exporters of potatoes in New Brunswick and Prince Edward Island and the Agricultural prices support board or Department of Agriculture regarding export of potatoes.

Mr. POULIOT:

What about members of parliament? They did well.

Mr. ASHBY:

Let me mention, too, the Ottawa Electric bus drivers, who worked constantly for sixteen hours under most unusual and trying conditions.

Mr. POULIOT:

What about the press gallery? They did well too.

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