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February 5, 1963

PC

Francis Alvin George Hamilton (Minister of Agriculture)

Progressive Conservative
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Hon. Alvin Hamilton (Minister of Agriculture):

Mr. Speaker, I think the hon.

gentleman is falling prey to the custom prevailing today of believing everything appearing in the newspapers.

Topic:   REPORTED INTENTION TO DISCONTINUE
Subtopic:   SUBSIDY
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COLUMBIA RIVER

INQUIRY AS TO JURISDICTION

On the orders of the day:
LIB

James Allen (Jim) Byrne

Liberal
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Mr. J. A. Byrne (Kootenay East):

I should like to direct a question to the Minister of 27507-3-217

Inquiries of the Ministry Public Works. This question deals with our natural resources and not our political resources. A member of the provincial legislature of British Columbia has stated that if the-

Topic:   COLUMBIA RIVER
Subtopic:   INQUIRY AS TO JURISDICTION
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Some hon. Members:

Order.

Topic:   COLUMBIA RIVER
Subtopic:   INQUIRY AS TO JURISDICTION
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LIB

James Allen (Jim) Byrne

Liberal
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Mr. Byrne:

-question of the Columbia river were in the hands of the provincial government-

Topic:   COLUMBIA RIVER
Subtopic:   INQUIRY AS TO JURISDICTION
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Marcel Joseph Aimé Lambert (Speaker of the House of Commons)

Progressive Conservative
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Mr. Speaker:

Order. The Chair would like to hear the question. The hon. member may preface his question by some identifying remark without going into great length and without quoting someone else.

Topic:   COLUMBIA RIVER
Subtopic:   INQUIRY AS TO JURISDICTION
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LIB

James Allen (Jim) Byrne

Liberal
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Mr. Byrne:

I should like to ask the Minister of Public Works whether jurisdiction in respect of the Columbia river development comes under the provincial or the federal government.

Topic:   COLUMBIA RIVER
Subtopic:   INQUIRY AS TO JURISDICTION
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PC

Edmund Davie Fulton (Minister of Public Works)

Progressive Conservative
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Hon. E. D. Fulion (Minister of Public Works):

I think, Mr. Speaker, you will agree I am being asked to give a legal opinion, and I do not believe it is my function to give a legal opinion any more than it is the function of the Minister of Justice under our rules to give a legal opinion to the house. However, I think it should be clear by now that we have proceeded on the basis that it is a question of divided jurisdiction and that is why we have been working so hard to get a satisfactory agreement with the government of British Columbia which has so far proven impossible to do.

Topic:   COLUMBIA RIVER
Subtopic:   INQUIRY AS TO JURISDICTION
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COLUMBIA RIVER

MEETING TO DISCUSS

On the orders of the day:
LIB

John (Jack) Davis

Liberal
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Mr. Jack Davis (Coasl-Capilano):

I wish to direct a question to the Secretary of State for External Affairs. Will the minister please tell the house whether any negotiations are going on at the present time, or pending, concerning the sale of Columbia river downstream benefit power in the United States?

Topic:   COLUMBIA RIVER
Subtopic:   MEETING TO DISCUSS
Sub-subtopic:   DOWNSTREAM BENEFITS
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Howard Charles Green (Secretary of State for External Affairs)

Progressive Conservative
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Hon. Howard C. Green (Secretary of Slate for External Affairs):

As the hon. member knows, there have been informal discussions on two or three occasions. I do not think any date is set at the moment for the next meeting, but I presume one will be set in due course. Those discussions were at the technical level.

Topic:   COLUMBIA RIVER
Subtopic:   MEETING TO DISCUSS
Sub-subtopic:   DOWNSTREAM BENEFITS
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ARTS, LETTERS AND SCIENCES INVITATIONS TO DOMINION-PROVINCIAL CONFERENCE ON BICULTURALISM

On the orders of the day:
NDP

David Lewis

New Democratic Party
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Mr. David Lewis (York South):

Mr. Speaker, I would like to ask the right hon. Prime

Inquiries of the Ministry Minister if he could inform the house whether he has already dispatched invitations to the provincial governments for the federal-provincial conference on biculturalism which he announced the other day?

Topic:   ARTS, LETTERS AND SCIENCES INVITATIONS TO DOMINION-PROVINCIAL CONFERENCE ON BICULTURALISM
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John George Diefenbaker (Prime Minister; President of the Privy Council)

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

Yes, Mr. Speaker.

Topic:   ARTS, LETTERS AND SCIENCES INVITATIONS TO DOMINION-PROVINCIAL CONFERENCE ON BICULTURALISM
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NDP

David Lewis

New Democratic Party
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Mr. Lewis:

In view of the reply given earlier by the Prime Minister, would the right hon. gentleman be good enough, with the consent of the house, to file a copy of the letter of invitation which he has dispatched to the provinces regarding the conference my earlier question dealt with?

Topic:   ARTS, LETTERS AND SCIENCES INVITATIONS TO DOMINION-PROVINCIAL CONFERENCE ON BICULTURALISM
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February 5, 1963