Douglas Scott Harkness
Progressive Conservative
Mr. Harkness:
Who was that?
Subtopic: FISH AND FISH CONTAINERS
Sub-subtopic: EXPORT AND IMPORT REGULATIONS
Mr. Harkness:
Who was that?
Mr. Gardiner:
The Assiniboia Construction Company. They are working on it now. The second tunnel has been completed as far as boring through the rock is concerned, and they are now completing the work of cementing the inside of the tunnel. So the job is being completed within the time set when the second contract was let.
Mr. Harkness:
Then I take it from what the minister has said that a considerable portion of this $2,900,000 we are now voting-
Mr. Gardiner:
About $910,000.
Business of the House
Mr. Harkness:
-is for this tunnel. BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE
Mr. Gardiner:
Yes. ,
Mr. Harkness:
The minister said the contract for the second tunnel was given to another company on a cost plus basis. I wonder if the minister would tell us, if he has the information, where the rock tunnellers working on that contract came from and if their cost is included in the cost plus figure.
Mr. Gardiner:
The men doing the work are miners from British Columbia. Even in Alberta we sometimes have to get help from British Columbia. Our information, which I think is correct, is that one of the best tunnellers in Canada is Stevens of Vancouver. Stevens was obtained by the Assiniboia Construction Company to take charge of this work, and I understand the plan is that this man makes his agreement with the miners who are brought down to do the job, and the work is done by them on the basis of agreements made with him.
Mr. Harkness:
It is a subcontract, then?
Mr. Gardiner:
Yes. Then that is allowed as part of the cost, and the work proceeds on that basis.
Mr. Quelch:
I have three or four questions to ask, but it is almost eleven o'clock.
Progress reported.
Mr. Fournier (Hull):
Tomorrow we shall take up first resolution No. 10 on today's order paper in the name of the Minister of of Justice, concerning the Royal Canadian Mounted Police Act; then resolution No. 9 of the Minister of Justice concerning the Judges Act, 1946. Then we will go into committee of the whole on Bill No. 8 to amend the Exchequer Court Act; then Bill No. 9, to amend the Department of Justice Act. From eight to nine o'clock will be public bills and orders, and then we will take up estimates: Agriculture, Veterans Affairs and Labour.
Mr. Green:
In that order?
Mr. Fournier (Hull):
I could not say as to
the last two departments, but Agriculture will be first.
At eleven o'clock the house adjourned, without question put, pursuant to standing order. [The following items were passed in committee of supply]:
29. Marketing of agricultural products, including temporary appointments that may be required to be made notwithstanding anything contained in the Civil Service Act, the amount available for such appointments not to exceed $6,000, $75,000. Special- 30. Prairie Farm Rehabilitation Act and water storage, $3,000,000.
Friday, October 14, 1949