Mr. Mclvor:

He knows his game.

Mr. Mclvor:

Would the minister allow an interjection? I know of a mill north of Port Arthur, way up north of Lake Nipigon, where the Indian agent got the machinery going and where they are turning out good work.

I should like, also, to thank the officials of the Indian department for extending the time spent by teachers at our two schools in Fort William. The parents have asked me to express gratitude to the officials.

Mr. Mclvor:

In following up the important question raised by my hon. friend the member for Vancouver East, I would like to make one suggestion. That is, that when any man offers his services in giving information against a prospective citizen, if that man so offering his services to our immigration officials or even to the Royal Canadian Mounted Police is not willing to use his name then he is proving himself a coward, and his information should not be accepted.

Mr. Mclvor:

Mr. Chairman, we have a reserve in our constituency. I can remember our chief criticizing the white leaders, and as I was an Indian chief myself I agreed with him. The one thing they do want is

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for their views to be taken into consideration. Not everything the Indians do is good, but the curse of our reserves are the white man and the liquor business, and I commend the minister very much, as others have done, for giving the Indians the opportunity of having their say when new legislation is brought in.

Mr. Mclvor:

Mr. Speaker, may I ask the minister a question? Does this bill apply to both sexes, men and women, equally?