Mr. POAATER:

I do not know that we can do any better than we have done. We have sent these cases to Doctor Penfield and to the Toronto psychiatry institute. I am not a medical man, as my hon. friend knows, but I do not think there ever has been a case where we have refused anything like a reasonable demand for treatment either in our hospitals by our own people or by experts outside. But I am sure my hon. friend knows of the very large number of people who just happen to have that mental slant, who are Derfectly normal in every other way but who have a fixed idea, a persecution complex, that they are not getting that to which they are entitled from the pension department, from the government, or from society. It is not only soldiers-

Mr. E. GUSS PORTER (West Hastings):

Mr. PORTER:

The minister carried the

money in his coat pocket from the bank. He said that he was carrying it in his outside coat pocket; he did not want to carry it there, so he handed it to his secretary to make the deposit.

Mr. PORTER:

I am willing to submit to

the opinion of this House whether I have conducted the case fairly or not.

Now, the right hon. Prime Minister addressed this further question to me, and it is a very pertinent one: Why didn't you

ask the hon. minister himself if he got his information from the cabinet or as a minister? Well, the chairman of the committee laboured this afternoon for half an hour to show by precedent, by rule and by law that he would' not permit-and he did not-questions along that line at all. Over and over again he ruled as is shown in this evidence. What is the use of asking me why I did not put the question when I was not allowed to?

Mr. PORTER:

No, I meant Mr. Robb.

They were to meet Mr. Robb, but Mr. Robb came to the hotel in the morning before they had an opportunity to meet him. That was the point I was coming to. They were to get a more elaborate and detailed statement in writing from the directors, Gough and Wood on the following morning. The cabinet meeting was called for the following morning, the 15th. Before the cabinet met and before going to the cabinet meeting, the Acting Minister of Finance went to the hotel where Messrs. Stewart, Wood and Gough were staying, and there he got, as Mr. Stewart swore, the detailed statement in writing of the affairs of the Home Bank. Then he left Messrs. Stewart, Wood and Gough and attended the cabinet meeting.