Mr. HEPBURN:

I should like to know if this is the gentleman who acted as commissioner to investigate the conduct of the Ontario Hydro Commission? I think I am entitled to an answer.

Mr. HEPBURN:

To use his own expression, he said there were no damned comedians in Canada. I believe if he could have listened to his own speech he would have changed his views. One further remark. The Minister of Finance said that the debt of Canada had been increased during the regime of the Liberal government. That statement is rather misleading. True, we did guarantee the bonds of the Canadian National Railways, but we got value in return. We had assets to show for it. Following his own argument by way of explanation of the guarantee of the banks for the loan to Newfoundland, he said the government of Canada did not lend the money but backed the note. By the same kind of argument will he agree that the debt of Canada has been increased $700,000 in virtue of the guarantee to the banks by the dominion.

Mr. HEPBURN:

I have not received an answer to my question.

Mr. HEPBURN:

Did he write it?

Mr. HEPBURN:

He should be fired, then.