Mr. BLATCHFORD:

No, I am not asking you to vote for it; use your own judgment.

I am simply laying the cards on the table.

Mr. BLATCHFORD:

He was a member r the Alberta legislature for twelve years and two years after becoming a director of the corporation he was elected to this House. You cannot blame him for that, can you? Another director of the company is Colonel James K. Cornwall, known as the apostle of the north. He has blazed trails into the north country for thirty years, and has done more to open up northern Alberta than any ten men on the prairies. He was a Conservative member of the legislature ten years ago, and today operates a line of steam boats and trading posts in the far north, the arctic.

Mr. BLATCHFORD:

We never handled

one dollar's worth of grain, because we never took over the plant.

Mr. BLATCHFORD:

Another member ot the organization is Senator P. E. Lessard, one of the oldest and best known and most respected business men in the west, a member of the Alberta legislature for years; he was made a senator long after this company was incorporated. So far as I am concerned, I

*was elected to the House of Commons this year, and the company was incorporated three years ago.

Mr. BLATCHFORD:

Yes.