Mr. MACPHERSON.

Look at section 62.

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Mr. MACPHERSON.

This is the province of Ontario.

Mr. MACPHERSON.

You have got to have your ballots printed at a given point and the ballots have to be sent to a different polling subdivision. There are 1,500 miles between the southern and northern districts of Comox-Atlin and if the ballots are printed in Nanaimo how can you get into Surprise lake without a flying machine in the time allowed. The best possible time that can be made to Surprise lake is 11 days, and if there is ice upon the river as there was during my own election when the man who carried the ballot boxes was obliged to break the trail for 80 miles with dogs, how can you overcome a difficulty like that. When the Prime Minister of British Columbia states it is possible to do that, he states what any man who knows the country knows to be incorrect.

Mr. MACPHERSON.

Would the hon. gentleman suggest that the man should be held guilty before he is proven guilty ?

Mr. MACPHERSON.

My hon. friend's information was certainly very bad. In my first election in Burrard, the returning officer was not able even in a by-election to get the ballot boxes into the northern part of the riding, which is now Comox-Atlin until four days after the date set for holding the elections. How could the ballot boxes leave say Nanaimo and get into Telegraph Creek and Atlin, which is 14 days in the winter, and at the same time get into the Squamish Yalley ? It is a phy-

sical impossibility to have the Comox-Atlin election at the same time as the others and the same thing applies to Yale-Cariboo.