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Date: 1929-02-08
By: Canada (House of Commons)
Citation: Dominion of Canada, House of Commons, Official Report of Debates House of Commons, 16th Parl, 3rd Sess, 1929 at 8.
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NATURAL RESOURCES-WESTERN PROVINCES
CORRESPONDENCE TABLED
William Lyon Mackenzie King—My hon. friend the leader of the opposition (Mr. Bennett) asked yesterday for correspondence in relation to the transfer of their natural resources to the western provinces. I beg to lay on the table the papers referring to the transfer of the natural resources of the province of Manitoba; also a copy of the correspondence relating to the transfer of the natural resources of the province of Saskatchewan, and a copy of the correspondence with respect to the transfer of the natural resources of the province of Alberta. I would like to say to my bon. friend, with respect to the correspondence between our government and the Alberta government, that there are two or three telegrams which were personal and confidential. I will send them to my bon. friend, and if, after reading them, be thinks that it would serve any useful purpose to have them made public at this time, the government will have no objection; but I think fie may feel that they should be kept private for the present.
Richard Bedford Bennett—I think the Prime Minister might keep the telegrams. I prefer not to see then at the moment. I accept his view that it might not be in the public interest to have them made public at the present time.
William Lyon Mackenzie King—I did not understand my hon. friend’s request yesterday to cover papers respecting the railway lands and the lands in the Peace river block in British Columbia, but no doubt he must wish to see the correspondence respecting these lands as well.
Richard Bedford Bennett—I should be greatly obliged.
William Lyon Mackenzie King—I now lay the correspondence on the table.