Robert Alexander Hoey
Progressive
Mr. HOEY:
Has there ever been a government- wharf at this point?
Topic: TRADE AND COMMERCE
PRO
LIB
William James Hammell
Liberal
Mr. HAMMELL:
No, for the simple reason that the locality has been served by a private wharf. But the business has increased so much of recent years, that a private wharf cannot accommodate the people.
Topic: TRADE AND COMMERCE
PRO
Robert Gardiner
Progressive
Mr. GARDINER:
Is it tourist traffic?
Topic: TRADE AND COMMERCE
LIB
William James Hammell
Liberal
Mr. HAMMELL:
Yes.
Topic: TRADE AND COMMERCE
?
An hon. MEMBER:
Bootleggers?
Topic: TRADE AND COMMERCE
LIB
William James Hammell
Liberal
Mr. HAMMELL:
No, we have no bootleggers up there.
Topic: TRADE AND COMMERCE
CON
Arthur Meighen (Leader of the Official Opposition)
Conservative (1867-1942)
Mr. MEIGHEN:
I am protesting against
this long string of supplementary estimates. We cannot get details. There is nothing to show us what was voted last year in any case. These items are all thrown at us in a lump. It is utterly unfair to parliament.
Topic: TRADE AND COMMERCE
LIB
Charles Gavan Power
Liberal
Mr. POWER:
Was it unfair five years ago
and ten years ago?
Topic: TRADE AND COMMERCE
CON
Arthur Meighen (Leader of the Official Opposition)
Conservative (1867-1942)
Mr. MEIGHEN:
Yes, it would have been unfair then, but it was not indulged in at that time.
Topic: TRADE AND COMMERCE
LIB
Charles Gavan Power
Liberal
Mr. POWER:
The hon. member must
not make that statement. On the night before prorogation in 1921 we passed estimates to the amount of $400,000,000.
Topic: TRADE AND COMMERCE
CON
Arthur Meighen (Leader of the Official Opposition)
Conservative (1867-1942)
Mr. MEIGHEN:
We did nothing of the
sort.
Topic: TRADE AND COMMERCE
LIB
Charles Gavan Power
Liberal
Mr. POWER:
We passed all the supplementaries, and we had about ten additions to the supplementaries, to the best of my knowledge. We got a new sheet about every hour.
Topic: TRADE AND COMMERCE
CON
Arthur Meighen (Leader of the Official Opposition)
Conservative (1867-1942)
Mr. MEIGHEN:
The hon. gentleman is
sitting up too late. His constitution does not fit him to be up so late. The supplementaries in those days were never so protracted as these. What I am complaining of is that there is a long string, page after page as to one province, a whole batch by itself, and others almost equally long, of items that should have appeared in the main estimates if they were justifiable at all.
Topic: TRADE AND COMMERCE
LIB
George Perry Graham (Minister of Railways and Canals)
Liberal
Mr. GRAHAM:
They never do.
Topic: TRADE AND COMMERCE
CON
Arthur Meighen (Leader of the Official Opposition)
Conservative (1867-1942)
Mr. MEIGHEN:
They should have.
Topic: TRADE AND COMMERCE
LIB
George Perry Graham (Minister of Railways and Canals)
Liberal
Mr. GRAHAM:
It has never been the
practice.
Topic: TRADE AND COMMERCE
CON
Arthur Meighen (Leader of the Official Opposition)
Conservative (1867-1942)
Mr. MEIGHEN:
Yes it has.
Topic: TRADE AND COMMERCE
LIB
George Perry Graham (Minister of Railways and Canals)
Liberal
Mr. GRAHAM:
I have been here longer
than the hon. member.
Topic: TRADE AND COMMERCE
CON
Arthur Meighen (Leader of the Official Opposition)
Conservative (1867-1942)
Mr. MEIGHEN:
What is the explanation of the $140,000, for Matane wharf in the supplementaries and nothing in the main estimates? That has been going on for years.
Topic: TRADE AND COMMERCE
LIB
George Perry Graham (Minister of Railways and Canals)
Liberal
Mr. GRAHAM:
The sum of $100,000 is
being contributed by the Hammermill Paper Company.
Topic: TRADE AND COMMERCE