Joseph-Alfred Dion (Deputy Speaker and Chair of Committees of the Whole of the House of Commons)
Liberal
Mr. Deputy Speaker:
The hon. member
can speak only with unanimous consent. It is eleven o'clock.
Mr. Deputy Speaker:
The hon. member
can speak only with unanimous consent. It is eleven o'clock.
Mr. Sinclair:
Have your leader set the estimates, and see what the total is.
Supply
Mr. Deputy Speaker:
It being eleven
o'clock, the house stands adjourned until three o'clock Monday afternoon.
Mr. Sinclair:
One hundred per cent error- that is what George Drew would estimate.
At eleven o'clock the house adjourned, without question put, pursuant to standing order. [The following items were passed in committee of supply]:
564. Grants to agricultural organizations, as detailed in the estimates-further amount required, $5,000. Marketing service- 565. Subsidies for cold storage warehouses under the Cold Storage Act, and grants, in the amounts detailed in the estimates-further amount required, $11,222. Terminable services- 566. Agricultural lime assistance-further amount required, $95,000.
International shortwave broadcasting service- 570. Maintenance and operation-further amount required, $124,950.
Immigration branch- Field and inspectional service, Canada- 571. Operation and maintenance-further amount required, $329,300. 572. To provide for the extension to March 31, 1952, of the period during which payments may be made to Trans-Canada Air Lines of the difference in cost between air transportation and minimum tourist class ocean transportation for immigrants transported from the United Kingdom by Trans-Canada Air Lines during such extended period- further amount required, $350,000. Indian Affairs branch- Education-Day and residential schools- 573. Operation and maintenance-further amount required, $85,000.
A-Department and missions abroad- 574. Departmental administration-further amount required, $25,000. 575. To provide for relief of distressed Canadian citizens abroad and for the reimbursement of the United Kingdom for relief expenditures incurred by its diplomatic and consular posts on Canadian account (part recoverable)-further amount required, $5,000. 576. Canadian representation at international conferences-further amount required, $40,000. 577. To provide for the expenses incurred by Canada as host at the Ottawa conference of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization, $19,000. 55704-60i B-General- Terminable services- 578. Contribution to the provisional inter-governmental committee for the movement of migrants from Europe, $50,100. 579. To provide for a gift of wheat as a contribution to famine relief for Greece, $825,000.
Public debt charges- Servicing of public debt- 580. Commission for payment of interest on public debt, etc.-further amount required, $32,000. Payments to municipalities- 581. Grants to municipalities in lieu of taxes on federal property-further amount required, $249,000. Contingencies and miscellaneous- 582. Cost of telephone service at Ottawa for all departments-further amount required, $55,000. 583. To authorize the deletion from the accounts of certain uncollectible debts due to the crown amounting in the aggregate to $30,506,622.09 in accordance with the recommendations of the standing committee on public accounts as contained in the third report of the committee to the House of Commons dated June 27, 1951, and to make the necessary accounting adjustments to reinstate the retirement fund with respect to overpayments made therefrom in the amount of $1,765.78, being a portion of the total amount to be so deleted from the accounts, $1,766. General items of payroll costs including superannuation payments- 584. To provide for a government contribution, to the superannuation fund in an amount equal to the estimated current and arrears payments of individual contributors in the previous fiscal year -further amount required, $4,943,977. 585. Further contribution to the superannuation fund in respect of additional liability consequent upon the salary increases effective December 1, 1951, $23,000,000. 586. To provide for the transfer to the civil service superannuation account of the second instalment of a special government contribution of a portion of the amount by which the estimated liabilities exceed the balance in the account, $75,000,000. Miscellaneous grants- 587. Contributions towards the national women's organization program in connection with the prosecution of a thrift campaign, not to exceed. $10,000.
Field services- Fish culture and development branch- 588. Construction or acquisition of buildings, works, land and new equipment-further amount required, $60,000. DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE A-Department- 589. Departmental administration-further amount required, $3,000. 590. Exchequer Court of Canada-administration -further amount required, $3,000. DEPARTMENT OF LABOUR A-Department- General administration- 591. Labour Gazette, authorized by Labour Department Act-further amount required, $23,000.
Supply 592. To provide for the effective organization and use of agricultural manpower, including recruiting, transporting and placing workers on farms and related industries and assistance to the provinces pursuant to agreements that may be entered into by the Minister of Labour with the provinces and approved by the governor in council-further amount required, $50,000. 593. Annuities Act-notwithstanding the Government Annuities Act, to authorize the Minister of Labour in consequence of the transfer of employees from the original employers to the new employers specified in the details of the estimates to enter into contracts with the original employers and the new employers, to provide that the new employers shall, effective on the dates respectively specified in the details, become parties to group annuity contracts specified in the said details respectively in the place of the original employers with respect to employees to whom those contracts applied and who were transferred to the new employers and for the application of the contracts in respect of service with the original employers and the new employers and for such other terms as the minister deems necessary for the maintenance and continuity of pension rights of the employees under those contracts, and to provide for payments in the current and subsequent fiscal years in accordance with the contracts so entered into out of the government annuities account, $1.00. Terminable services- 594. To provide for expenses that may be incurred in the arranging for and the movement of workers from outside Canada to work on farms and other essential industry in Canada when Canadian labour is not available to meet the need; including costs connected with the supervision and welfare of persons already immigrated to Canada under former authorized labour movements and administrative expenses connected therewith-further amount required, $457,895. B-Unemployment Insurance Act, 1940- 595. Government's contribution to the unemployment insurance fund-further amount required, $2,700,000.
The Senate- 596. To provide, notwithstanding anything contained in the Senate and House of Commons Act, for the payment of the full sessional indemnity for the fifth session of the twenty-first parliament, 1951, to members of the Senate for days lost through absence caused by public business, by illness, or on account of death. Payments to be made as the treasury board may direct, $9,000. 597. To provide, notwithstanding anything contained in the Senate and House of Commons Act, for the payment to each member of the Senate who attended the first part of the fifth session, which commenced on October 9, 1951, and ended on December 21, 1951, of an amount representing the actual transportation and living expenses of such member while on the journey between Ottawa and his place of residence after the Christmas adjournment of parliament on December 21, 1951, and on the return journey from his place of residence to Ottawa at the end of the recess which commenced on that date, or at any other one time during that session, $5,500. 598. General administration-further amount required, $14,260. House of Commons- 599. To provide for the full sessional indemnity to members of the House of Commons-days lost through absence caused by illness, official public business, or order of the house, or on account of death during the fifth session of 1951-notwithstanding anything to the contrary, in chap. 147 of the Revised Statutes, 1927, an Act respecting the Senate and House of Commons, or any amendments thereto. Payments to be made as the treasury board may direct, $17,650. 600. To provide, notwithstanding anything contained in the Senate and House of Commons Act, for the payment to each member of the House of Commons who attended the first part of the fifth session, which commenced on October 9, 1951, and ended on December 21, 1951, of an amount representing the actual transportation and living expenses of such member while on the journey between Ottawa and his place of residence after the Christmas adjournment of parliament on December 21, 1951, and on the return journey from his place of residence to Ottawa at the end of the recess which commenced on that date or at any other one time during that session, $8,000. 601. General administration-estimates of the Clerk -further amount required, $70,400. 602. Estimates of the Sergeant-at-Arms-further amount required, $17,500.
B-Dominion coal board- 603. Payments in connection with the movements of coal under conditions prescribed by the governor in council-further amount required, $780,000.
604. Administration, production and distribution of films and other visual materials-further amount required, $48,000. 605. Construction or acquisition of new equipment -further amount required, $29,180. DEPARTMENT OF NATIONAL HEALTH ^ND WELFARE National health branch-health services- 606. Immigration medical services-further amount required, $508,250. Indians and Eskimos health services- 607. Operation and maintenance-further amount required, $965,000. Welfare branch-Old age security- 608. To provide for the transfer to the old age security fund of the amount by which the pension payments from the fund exceed the receipts into the fund during the fiscal year 1951-52, which is estimated at, $57,000,000.
Atomic energy control board- Atomic energy project- 609. Construction or acquisition of buildings, works, land and new equipment and to provide for payment to Central Mortgage and Housing Corporation, under vote 307 of the Appropriation Act, No. 4, 1951, as well as under this item, for housing and other works constructed at Deep River during 195051 and 1951-52 by the corporation, such payment to be applied in repayment of advances, and interest thereon, made to it out of the consolidated revenue fund for the purpose of constructing such works-further amount required, $1,000,000.