May 21, 1930 (16th Parliament, 4th Session)

Mr. CANTLEY:

Before you go any further, Mr. Chairman, I want to protest against this whole list of free items. It is absolutely useless for the government to talk of protecting and building up an iron and steel industry in this country while they place a large proportion of the products of our mills and furnaces on the free list and at the same time unfairly grant the people who use this raw material, produced under conditions to which I have referred, the highest rate of protection granted under the Canadian tariff. There is nothing scientific, fair or reasonable about the tariff as reflected in the whole list of items contained on pages 16 and 17, and I protest against those items.