Right Hon. R. B. BENNETT (Prime
Minister) moved:
That Messrs. Morand, Bourgeois, Church, Dorion, Elliott, Ganong, Gray, Sullivan, Hanbury, Heaps, Howard, Howden, McIntosh, Peck, Plunkett, Rinfret, Stanley and White (London), be appointed a special committee of this house to consider and report upon the inauguration of a national policy of house building to include the construction, reconstruction and repair or urban and rural dwelling houses in order to provide employment throughout Canada, and also to provide such dwelling houses as may be necessary, upon such terms and conditions as may be best adapted to the needs and requirements of the people, having regard to the cost of such a policy and the burden to be imposed upon the treasury of Canada; and to recommend the manner in which such a work should be proceeded with; and to hear evidence and to send for persons and papers in regard to the matters above set out, "and that paragraph (1) of standing order 65 be suspended in relation thereto."
Motion agreed to.