Mr. H. W. Herridge (Kooienay West):

have a supplementary question, Mr. Speaker, and I want to join with the hon. member

for Essex East in expressing the regrets of members of this group on the minister leaving, and, I am sure, the good will of the house toward the minister. Does the minister think it would assist in laying the foundations for a new political career to arrange for the building of a post office in New Denver in the Kootenays?

Mr. Fulton:

I appreciate this expression of sentiment also. I might have thought, however, that the hon. gentleman might be more practically interested in the foundations of the post office rather than in the foundations of my political career which may, on occasion, bring me into conflict with some of the hon. gentleman's own friends; but I shall look carefully into the question of the foundations for the post office.

Hon. Paul Hellyer (Trinity):

I wish to address a question to the Minister of Defence Production. Is the minister apprehensive about the future of production sharing arrangements with the United States in view of Canada's present position of military unpreparedness?

Hon. Raymond O'Hurley (Minister of Defence Production):

If the hon. member for Trinity would look at the results of production sharing he would not ask that question, because the result is something he never thought of.

Mr. Hellyer:

As a supplementary question, does the minister expect that Canada will receive as great a volume of United States production orders in the next 12 months as in the past year?

Mr. O'Hurley:

Mr. Speaker, I never was a prophet.

Mr. Arthur Laing (Vancouver South):

wish to direct a question to the Secretary of State for External Affairs. It relates to information which I sought in respect to correspondence between the government of Canada and that of the United States with regard to lumber shipments, which was promised to me some five weeks ago subject only to the agreement of the United States government. When may I expect the information?

Hon. Howard C. Green (Secretary of State for External Affairs):

Mr. Speaker, I must apologize to the hon. member. I was planning to speak to him personally about this correspondence. We have not been able to get the permission of the United States government for the production of some of the documents, but I shall be glad to show them to the hon. member personally.

Mr. J. R. Garland (Nipissing):

I wish to address a question to the Prime Minister. Can he say whether a decision has been reached with respect to removing the Canadian travel bureau from the department of northern affairs to the Department of Trade and Commerce?

Right Hon. J. G. Diefenbaker (Prime Minister):

Mr. Speaker, as a result of the desire to extend to the greatest possible degree the tourist attractions of Canada, and in order to have available every means to that end, the government has decided that as the Department of Trade and Commerce has trade mission offices throughout the world it would be fitting and proper, in order to encourage tourism into our country from all parts of the world, to transfer the administration of the bureau to the Department of Trade and Commerce, which at one time had it under its jurisdiction. In announcing that decision I of course want to point out that there has been a tremendous advance in the last year and a half in tourism into Canada and in the amount that has been earned by Canadians from it, and the minister of northern affairs is entitled to every commendation for what he has been doing.