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May 22, 1951

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Edmund Davie Fulton

Progressive Conservative
Member File Biography @ PARLINFO

Mr. Fulton:

I would ask the minister

whether the government has given any consideration to conducting an inquiry into organized criminal activities in Canada along the lines of the inquiry which has produced such startling results in the United States.

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Stuart Sinclair Garson (Solicitor General of Canada; Minister of Justice and Attorney General of Canada)

Liberal
Member File Biography @ PARLINFO

Hon. Stuart S. Garson (Minister of Justice):

Mr. Speaker, as I understand my hon. friend's question, he wants to know whether we have given any consideration here to setting up what would correspond to the Kefauver committee in the United States. My answer to that question is that no consideration has been given to such a proposal.

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Edmund Davie Fulton

Progressive Conservative
Member File Biography @ PARLINFO

Mr. Fulton:

Will the minister be kind enough to answer the first part of the question, with regard to a request for assistance from the Royal Canadian Mounted Police?

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Elie Beauregard (Speaker of the Senate)

Liberal
Member File Biography @ PARLINFO

Mr. Speaker:

Order. What has just taken place shows how improper it is to ask at this time questions which are long and involved. Questions which are asked on the orders of the day should be urgent ones which can be asked briefly and which can be replied to briefly. I would think that the hon. member might withhold this question until some future time.

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Edmund Davie Fulton

Progressive Conservative
Member File Biography @ PARLINFO

Mr. Fulton:

If I might be permitted to say so, Mr. Speaker, I think the disappearance of men-

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Some hon. Members:

Order.

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James Arthur Ross

Progressive Conservative
Member File Biography @ PARLINFO

Mr. Ross (Souris):

The steam roller.

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Edmund Davie Fulton

Progressive Conservative
Member File Biography @ PARLINFO

Mr. Fulton:

My question is based on-

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Elie Beauregard (Speaker of the Senate)

Liberal
Member File Biography @ PARLINFO

Mr. Speaker:

Order. Probably we would not have had this difficulty if the hon. member had asked a short question. If he wants to do so now, I will allow him to do it; but it must not be a long and involved question.

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Edmund Davie Fulton

Progressive Conservative
Member File Biography @ PARLINFO

Mr. Fulton:

I would ask the Minister of Justice whether the Royal Canadian Mounted Police made any investigation, in response to the request from his wife, into the disappearance of that man in Montreal.

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Stuart Sinclair Garson (Solicitor General of Canada; Minister of Justice and Attorney General of Canada)

Liberal
Member File Biography @ PARLINFO

Mr. Garson:

My hon. friend has given me no notice whatever of this long question.

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Edmund Davie Fulton

Progressive Conservative
Member File Biography @ PARLINFO

Mr. Fulton:

I telephoned the minister's office yesterday.

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Elie Beauregard (Speaker of the Senate)

Liberal
Member File Biography @ PARLINFO

Mr. Speaker:

Order. I have given the hon. member a great deal of leeway. I think he should allow the minister to answer the question.

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Stuart Sinclair Garson (Solicitor General of Canada; Minister of Justice and Attorney General of Canada)

Liberal
Member File Biography @ PARLINFO

Mr. Garson:

As I was saying, Mr. Speaker, my hon. friend has given me no notice of his long and, as I find it, rather involved question. I should therefore like to take his question as notice and answer it tomorrow. Before doing that, however, I think I should like to have a conference with him in order to find out just what it is he would like to find out.

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Edmund Davie Fulton

Progressive Conservative
Member File Biography @ PARLINFO

Mr. Fulion:

Mr. Speaker-

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Elie Beauregard (Speaker of the Senate)

Liberal
Member File Biography @ PARLINFO

Mr. Speaker:

I do not think it would be proper to allow this discussion to continue.

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Edmund Davie Fulton

Progressive Conservative
Member File Biography @ PARLINFO

Mr. Fulion:

On a question of privilege, Mr. Speaker-

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Jean-François Pouliot

Liberal
Member File Biography @ PARLINFO

Mr. Pouliot:

It does not pay to ask a twisted question.

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Elie Beauregard (Speaker of the Senate)

Liberal
Member File Biography @ PARLINFO

Mr. Speaker:

Order. The hon. member for Kamloops (Mr. Fulton) is rising on a question of privilege.

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Edmund Davie Fulton

Progressive Conservative
Member File Biography @ PARLINFO

Mr. Fulion:

I wish merely to point out, with reference to the statement of the minister, that I phoned his office yesterday and advised him of the subject matter of the inquiry which I was to make.

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May 22, 1951