INQUIRY AS TO REQUESTS FOR DISASTER RELIEF FOR MARITIME PROVINCES
On the orders of the day:
REVISION OF EMPIRE TRADE AGREEMENT AND GENERAL AGREEMENT ON TARIFFS AND TRADE
On the orders of the day:
INTRODUCTION THIS SESSION OF LEGISLATION
On the orders of the day:
TRANS-CANADA AIR LINES CRASH AT MOOSE JAW IN 1954 STATEMENT AS TO SETTLEMENT OF CLAIMS
On the orders of the day:
Hon. R. O. Campney (Minister of National
Defence): Mr. Speaker, I think all hon. members of the house will be interested to know that all the claims arising out of the death of passengers and crew of a T.C.A. North Star aircraft resulting from the collision between that aircraft and an R.C.A.F. Harvard aircraft near Moose Jaw, Saskatchewan, on April 8, 1954, have now been settled.
I think hon. members will agree with me that it would not be desirable to make
The Address-Mr. Diefenbaker public the amounts paid to next of kin with respect to each of the 31 individual passengers and four members of the crew. I may say, however, that the total amount paid in settlement of these claims was slightly under one million dollars.
It has been impossible, in spite of the most careful and painstaking investigations by technical and legal experts of the Department of Transport, the Department of National Defence and Trans-Canada Air Lines, to ascertain responsibility for the accident.
As a result of the accident T.C.A. suffered a very heavy loss in the value of the plane. The government has therefore decided that it would be only fair and equitable for the crown to pay the third party claims. This the crown has done.
