Mr. GOULET:

For a copy of all documents, correspondence, memoranda, letters, exchanged between the Minister of Labour at Ottawa, and the Minister of Labour at Quebec, and the municipal council of La Sarre, county of Abitibi, Quebec, or the mayor or any of the officers of the said council, in connection with expenditure under the Unemployment Relief Act in La Sarre.

Mr. GOULET:

For a copy of all documents, correspondence, memoranda, letters, exchanged between the Minister of Labour at Ottawa, and the Minister of Labour at Quebec, and the municipal council of Notre Dame de Palmorol, county of Abitibi, Quebec, or the mayor or any of the officers of the said council, in connection with expenditure under the Unemployment Relief Act in Notre Dame de Palmorol.

1. On what dates did the Department of Agriculture start to submit cattle to the tuberculin test: (a) in the township of Cambridge, county of Russell, (b) in the township of Russell, county of Russell?

2. On what dates, in each of these townships, was the test interrupted or started again, and at whose request?

3. For what reasons was said test interrupted?

4. Did Mr. C. A. Seguin, member of the legislative assembly, ask the department to discontinue said test, and what reasons did he give for the interruption or discontinuance of same?

5. How many residents of these two townships submitted their cattle to the test, and how many of them refused to submit them to the test?

6. What is the cost to date of the test in each one of these two townships, and how much did the test cost in the township of Clarence, and the township of Cumberland?

7. Is the department aware that some of the residents who refused to submit their cattle to the test are now supplying milk for the use of pupils at the provincial government school of Embrun?

8. Did the department give instructions to have the test completed by the inspection of all cattle (subject to be tested) of these two townships, in compliance with the regulations regarding the establishment of reserve zones?

9. If not, why?

10. Will the department require, according to the rules governing the establishment of reserve zones, that the cattle of these two townships be submitted to the test?

11. If so, when will the department complete this work?

Mr. GOULET:

It is left already.

Mr. ALFRED GOULET (Russell) (Translation) :

Mr. Speaker, as representative of one of the finest agricultural sections of Eastern Ontario, I will support the motion presented by the hon. member for St. Johns-Iberville (Mr. Rheaume), because I believe it to be in the interest of the whole country. I have closely studied the question and I can state that the farmer is certainly not sufficiently compensated for the slaughter of his cattle. It is spring time when these cattle are first tested, a time when the milch cow produces the most, and yet when it is slaughtered the price paid is only that of beef-meat. Generally, at that time, the milch cow is not fit for market purpose, it is however fit to give good returns to the farmer. One must not forget that the government does not pay the two thirds of the S60 allotted for an ordinary cow. As the hon. member for St. Johns-Iberville stated, the farmer only receives $28, or $30 to $32 for each animal. Not only should this resolution be adopted, but the act should be retroactive, that is in the counties where the test has been carried out the farmers should be further compensated because in replacing the cattle slaughtered they were put to heavy expenses.